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STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, Jst, I89I. 

1. (30) Analyze the following sentence: So important in 

every American's education is the learning to 
use English correctly that, though this may 
now be regarded as a secondary rather than a 
primary object of the study of grammar, the 
study must still be welcomed as a reinforcement 
in an imperative work. 

2. (10) (2) In a sentence, what office in common have 

such words as make, are, throiu? (2) What are 
sucli words called, and why? (2) What connnoii 
office in a sentence have such words as rosy, 
the, an? (2) In what three ways do rosy, the, an 
perform the common office? (2) What are such 
words called, and why? 

3- (10) Decline (that is, give the nominative and possess- 
ive forms in the singular and plural:) (2) sto}2e, 
(2) zuoman, (2) ox, (2) deer, (2) alms. 

4. [The pupil whose instruction enables him to an- 

swer tlie following question may answer it, if he 
choose, and liave the credits earned applied on 
any other questions. Other pupils may omit 
this question.] Give the principles (by refer- 
ence to Old English or Anglo-Saxon) by which 
we have different declensions or plural forms in 
(2) stone, (2) zuoman, (2) ox, (2) deer, (2) alms. 

5. (2) What is parsing? 

6. (8) Parse in full all the nouns in: Elizabeth's favor- 

ite, Kaleigh, was beheaded by James I. 

7- (10) Parse each word in: Bear ye one anotlier's bur- 
dens. 

8. (10) Fill; each of the following blanks with a«verb in 
the indicative or the optative (subjunctive) mode 

and give a reason for your choice: (2) If ye 

men, tight. (2) If I he, I would do differ- 
ently. (^) If he but discredt, he will suc- 
ceed. (2) I tremble lest he . (2) Though 

tj^e there, I did not see him. 



STATE BOARD EXAMiKATlO^'S. 



(10) (1) What is Render? (3) Detine different gen- 
ders. (1) Wliat is the difference between sex and 
gender? l',i) In what three ways may the mas- 
culine of nduns be distingiiislied from the fem- 
inine? (2) Illustrate the three ways. 

(5) Justify the use of the following italicized words: 
(1) Two dollars is not too much, [l) Bread and 
milk is excellent food. (1) Talking and elo- 
quence are not the same. (2) Every book and 
every paper zoas f»und in tis place. 

(5) Correct the following errors and give your reasons 
for each correction: (1) He don't like it. (1) 
Wliy are dust and ashes proud? (1) Five years' 
interest are due. (1) Where was you? (1) Now, 
boys, I want every one of you to decide for 
themselves. 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 2d, 1 89 J. 

Sevfinty-Jivc Credits 

«. (10) Define: Sentence, declension., proper adjective, 
relative* pronoun, tense. Illustrate each. 

2. (6) Wi'ite: (a) A complex sentence with a compound 
subject; {b) a sentence using zuhat as a relative 
pronoj.ni; (c) sentences using* correctly the verbs 

lay (preterits) drunk, sang-. 
3 (10) Write («) the comparison of little, old, congenial; 

[i>] the possessives, singular and plural, of day, 
lady, it, 7ny ; (c) Sentences using that (1) as a rela- 
tive pronoun, (2) as a conjunction, (3) as a 
demonstrative pronoun. 

4- (3) State and illustrate three ways of forming the 

plural of nouns. 

5- (5) Discuss and illustrate the difference between 

strong (irregular) and weak (irregular) verbs. 
When should the subjunctive mode be employed? 

6. (12) ",As I walked through the wilderness of this 
world, 1 lighted on a certain place where eras a 
den, and laid me down in that place to sleep^ 
and as I slept, I dreamed a dream. * * * j[ 
looked and sazu him open the book and reaa 
therein, and as he read, he wept and trembled., 
and not being able longer to contain, he brok'i' 
out with a lamentable cry, saying, 'What shall I 
do?' " — Pilgrim's Progress. Analyze completely 
the first sentence. 



TAJK BOARD EXAMINATIONS 



7. (5) Give the principal parts of the italicized verbs. 

8. (7) Give etymology and syntax of ceriahi, xuhere, 

dreamed, open, vuhat, shall, and do. 

9. (8) Kn^yzQ, ivilder7iess, lamentable. Give five deriva- 

tives from Comprehend, and discuSR the various 
forms. 

10. (8) Correct the followinj^, stating- reasons. 
"He done it just like I did." 
"It is me, which is able to go." 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 1st, J892. 

.1. (6) Fill the blanks in the following: 

1. Julia is either sick very Indolent. 

2. He yields neither to force persuasion. 

3. John was believed he was known to be 

truthful. 

4. He was not believed known to be truth- 

ful. 

5. He acted he were crazy. 

6. I have no other home this. 

Classify the words supplied. 

2. (10) Tell the voice of the verbs in th'Bse sentences: 

1. The council is discussing the question thor- 

oughly. 

2. "Unctuous kindness overflowed his lips, pre- 

cise and thin." 

3. The opinions of this junto were completely 

controlled by Nicholas Vedder." 
Change the voice, telling the effect of this 

change on the sentence. 
,3- (8) Parse the italicized words in the sentences follow- 
ing: The njilk tastes sour. We walked a mile. 
He became a rich man. A merry heart goes all 
the day. Is my future friend red haired i' I have 
written my mother a long letter. This is a 
j>ound heavier. Wha't is one man's meat is 
another man's poison. 

-4' (12) Analyze the first, third and fourth sentences: 
"Modern culture," says Mr. Joseph Cook, "in a 
most impressive period, is a child crying in the 
wilderness, and with no voice bzit a cry." That 
describes the catamount exactly. "The trum- 
pet sounds 'rally to colors' again." ''BeiJig one 
■with Nature'- is all humb'ug! Parse the italicized 
words. 



6 STAIK BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 



6- (8) In the form given below, express the singular and 

plural of these words! Valley, solo, life, lily, 
radii, sty, elves, volcano, dictum, theses, dregs, 
crisis, veto, soliloquy, hanger-on, salmon. 

NUMBER. 
SINGULAR. PLURAL, 

6. (10) Classify these words, using tabular form if you 
chouse: Sultan, nun, artists, despair, singing, 
flock, jury, gymnast, Bogota, weakness, slum- 
ber, swarm, absence, John Rogers, skill, corps, 
brilliancy, pride, to swing, suite. Give reasons 
for making these classes. 

7- (6) Fill these blanks with the proper words: Even a 

child is known by doings. Neither of the 

ships lowered colors. Each person must 

carry own lunch. After you have read The 

Pioneers return to me. If thy hand or thy 

foot offend thee, cut off. 

8. (9) Compare in meaning the italicised words below, 

telling what difference vou see: I sit beneath 
the elm's protecting shade. "I am sitting- by 
the stile, Mary." 1 ha-c-e been sitting- here wait- 
ing for you. What time is indicated? What 
tense? What is tense? 

9, (10) What is the difference between a verb and verbal 

words? Illustrate the differences, using th*^ 
word run. 

lo. (8) What is analysis in grammar? 

n. (7) Use the words sit, set, lie, lay, properly in the 

sentences below, giving reasons: the win c 

in that quarter? John the hen on ten ego-s 

Three wives up in the lighthouse tower. 

Three corpses stretched on the shining sand 

In slumbers of midnight the sailor boy . 

Uneasy the head that wears a crown. 

on, Macduff. 

12. (6) Compare meaning of word book, in these sen- 
tences: I have this one smatl, zc-orn, red book. I 
have one book. Name the italicized words. 
Classify them, giving the reasons for such 
classitication. 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 2nd, IS92. 
I- (9) Use these words properly in sentences: affect. 

,m ^ effect; abandon, desert; ancient, antiquated. 
2. (9) Con-ect or justify the use of the italicized words- 
The man with hfs family is here. The wheel 
Hrnd axle ts a mechanical power. Fancy mv 

^Awmhi^X?, beguiles. 



STATK BOARD EXAJMIN ATIONS. 



3. (9) What is tense? Conjugate /o 6f^?« in the indica- 

tive mode, givintr present and past in simple 
form, perfect and past perfect in progressive 
form, and future and future perfect in passive 
fotm. 

4. -(9) "Claudius must cheat like o scoundrel tM live like a 

gentleman. Parse the italicized words. 

5. (6) Give parts of speecli of these words; Wise, wisdom, ^ 

wisely. 
(5) Write sentences in whicli bright, brightness, and 
brightly are properly used. 

6. (7) Write the principal parts vt three regular verbs- 

Of the following irregular verbs naming parts; 
see, lie, set, go, come, be. 

7. (7) What is the subjunctive mode? (5) Write a 

sentence containing a verb in that mode. 

8. (10) Parse the italicized words in the following 

sentences: 
"Plants come up from seeds." 
^'Yet most people think but little about it." 

9. (10) Write a rule of syntax. Illustrate it by an ex- 

ample. 
lo, (12) Analyze the following sentence: "On the inner 
side of each valve they-e are three long hairs; 
there hairs are very sensitive, and the moment 
they are touched the valves close and tlie points 
come together Just as your fingers do when you 
clasp your hands." 
(7) Classify and give the construction or dependence 
of the words in itarlics. 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 1st, 1893. 

• . (2) How is the plural of nouns formed? (1) Illus- 
trate. (2) Give some exceptions to the usual rules. (2) 
Write the plurals of a, 6, valley, canto and negro. 

2*. (2) How Is the possessive of nouns formed? (2) Of 
pronouns? (1) Illustrate. 

3. (3) To what parts of speech do these words belong: 
Vibrating, behold, plenty, quick, glancing and vigor? ^3) 
Write sentences In which these are used as you classified 
them. 

4' (5) Choose a verb and write it in one tense and per- 
son for each of its modes. (4) Express each of these forms 
i n a sentence. 

'5. (5) Choose a verb and write it in the passive voicei 
indicative mode, imperfect and future tenses, (3) Express 
each of these forms in a sentence. 



STATE BOAKD EXAMINATIONS. 



6. (5) Analyze: "He was, in fact, a sort at Jack-of -all- 
trades, and good at each" (5). Parse italicized words. 

7. (5) H{.w does the passive voice ditfer from tlie active 
compound form in construction? (5) Write a sentence in 
each form. 

8. (5) Give the principal parts of put, quit, drink, 
draw, dwell, knit, lay and lie. (5) How do you classify these 
wor(Js as to form? 

9. (5) Compare little, out, many, red, merry, eloq^ient. 
polite and illustrious. (2) When is an adjective in the su- 
perlative degree? (2) Comparative? (2) Positive? 

10. (3) When is it proper to use shall in expressing fu- 
ture time? (3) When will? (2) Give two or three illustra- 
tions. 

11. (^ Wri«te brief simple sentences using these prepo- 
sitions properly: In, into, of, off, on, upon, under, beneath, 
until and but. 

12. (5) AiT^Jyze by diagram or otherwise: "The com- 
petitors were now under view from nearly every part of the 
circus, yet the race was not begun; they YtajA first to make the 
chalked line successfully: 

13' (5) Parse the italicized words in question 12, giv- 
ing part of speecli and otlice in the sentence. 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 2d, J 893. 

"You hear tiiat boy laughing? You think he's all fun ; 

But the angels laugh too at the good he has don^; 
The children laugh loud as tliey troop at his call, 

And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all." 

I. Which are the principal clauses? Give subject and 
predicafe. 

^-■"i. Name and classify the subordinate clauses. 

3- Parse "loud" (3); "that" (1) and "tiiat" (4). 

A' Give principal parts of "done" and "laugh." Parse 
"has done", "fun", "troop" and "good." 

5- Write "do" in the indicative mode, active voice, 
first person, plural of all. tenses; also in the passive voice, 
third person, sing-ular, neuter of same mode and tenses. 

6. Wliiit verbs have no passive? Why? Give four ex- 
ampl3s. 

C?' Write the comparative forms of "evi-l," "handsome," 
"wel}-,'' "little," '"'high," "hind." Deiine comparison. 

8. Analyze: "And be called one of his servants and asked 
what^these'tfiings meant." Parse \sihat. 

9- Give principal parts of "hida" "rise," "strive," 
"take*" "wear,"' ^'dH,-- ••work." Why called jii-inclpal parts? 



STATE BOAKD KXAMINATIONS. 



lo. Write an example of a clause as subject of asentence; 
as object of a sentence. Illustrate all the uses of "that" 
and note the part of speech in each case. 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, Jst, 1894, 

[Note. In mentioning a phrase or clause it is sufficient to write the first 
word or two, and the last word, with an intervening dash. Constrnction denotes 
not only the kind of element and what it expresses but also its relationship to 
some particular part of the sentence.] 

I. Fill the accompanying diagram with the principal 
parts of the independent (principal) clauses found in the 
passage below. 



SUBJECT. 



VERB. 



COMPLEMENT. 



1. (10) These wei-e beautiful autumn days at the White 
I'"arm. The orchards were gleaming, the grapes hung purple 
on the vines, and the odor of ripening fruit was in the hazy 
air. The pink spirea had cast its feathery petals by the gray 
stone walls, but the welcome golden-rod bloomed in royal 
profusion along the brown waysides, and a crimson leaf hung 
iiere and there in the tree tops, just to give a hint of the fall 
styles in color. Heaps of yellow pumpkins and squashes lay 
in the corners of the fields; corn stalks bowed their heads be- 
neath the weight of ripened ears; beans threatened to burst 
through their yellow pods. 

2. (8) Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, 

Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; 

The heifer that lows on the upland farm, 

Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; 

The sexton tolling his bell at noon, 

Drems not the great Nepoleon 

Stops his horse and lists wi.h delight, 

Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine height; 

Nor knowest thou what argument 

Thy life to thy neighbor's creed hath lent. 

3- (2) "Carker," said Mr. Dombey, /a>%zw^ a chair near 
him, "I oftnnot say that young man. Gay, ever impressed me 
favorably." 

4' (2) It is my frequent practice to visit places of resort 
where I am least known to observe what reception my works 
meet with in this world. 



10 STA'|-E ISOAKD KX A:\I I N AllONS. 

5. (2) It has been said tliat we may learn the little 
value of fortunes by the persons on luhom heaven is pleased 
to bestow them. 

II. (14) Give the construction of the subordinate (de- 
pendent) clauses, not properly included in the foregoing 
diagram. 

III. (12) Give the construction of the intinitive phrases 
found in the passages above. 

IV. (10) Give the construction of, tuhilst, arg-iiment, 
taki7ig, reception, zuhom. 

V. (8) Re-write passage five with entire change of voice. 

VI. (4) Give the possessive plural of, Ms, Mr. Dombey. 

person, ivhom. 

VII. (8) Illustrate four substantative (noun) uses of the 
infinitive phrase (underscore phrase.) 

VIII. (10) Give in tabulated form the infinitives and 
participles of the transitive verb, buy. 

IX. (10) Give in tabulated form a synopsis in the third 
person, singular, indicative and subjunctive moods, passive 
of the verb, tell, 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 2nd, J894. 

80 Credits. 

I. (14) Fill the accompanying diagram with the princi- 
pal parts of the independent (principal) clauses found in the 
passages below. 

SUBJECT. VEUB. COMPLEMENT. 



The castled crag of Drachenfels 

Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, 

Whose breast of waters broadly swells 

Between the banks which bear the vine. 

Had not Cassar seen that Rome was ready to stoop, he would not 

have dared to make himself the master of that once brave people. 
I tell you earnestly you must get into the habit of looking intensely 

at words and assuring yourself of their meaning. If you read 

ten pages of a good book with real accuracy, you are for evermore 

in some measure an educated person. 
Therefore, Jew, 
Though justice be thy plea, consider this. 
That in the course of justice none of us 
Should see salvation. I have spoke thus much 
To mitigate the justice of thy plea. 
You'll want all day to-morrow, I suppose?" said Scrooge. 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 11 

2. (IQ) Give the consti-uction of the subordinate (de- 
pendent) clauses, not properly included in the foregoing 
diagram. 

3. (6) Give the construction of the infinitive phrases 
found in the passages above. 

4. (20) Give the construction of xvhose, master^ once, 
assurinn^, yourself, person, Jeiv, -plea, that and thus, In bold 

face type in the passages. 

5. (8) Rewrite the following witli entire change of 
voice, tense, person and number. If you read tett fages ruith 

accuracy. 

6. (5) Give in accordance with present usage the princi- 
pal parts of tire verbs (omitting auxilliaries) in passage 4 

7. (2) Expand an adverb of time into a clause. 

8. (9) Give: 

(a) The first person plural, pluperfect indicative 

passive of the verb to sell, 
{b) The third person singular, present subjunctive 

active of the verb to ktiozu. 
(c) The active participles of the verb to set. 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, Jst, 1895. 

1. A peasant was one day driving some geese to town, 
where he hoped to sell them. He had a long stick in his 
hand, and drove them pretty fast. But the geese did not 
like to be hurried, and happening to meet a traveler, tliey 
poured out their complaints against the peasant who was 
driving them. 

2. "Where can you find geese more unhappy than weV 
See how this peasant Is liurrying on, this zvay and that, and 
di'iving us just as though we were only common geese. Igno- 
rant fellowl He never thinks hozv he is bound to respect us, 
for we are the descendents of the very geese that saved Rome 
somany^'^ars ago." 

3. "But for zuhat do you expect to be famous yourselves?" 
asked the traveler. 

4- "Because our ancestors — " 

5. "Yes, I know, I have read all about it. What I' 
want to know is zvhat good have you yourselves done?" 

6. "Why, our ancestors saved Rome." 
7* "Yes, yes; but mhat have you done?" 
8. "We? Nothing.'' 

9- "Of zfhat good are you, then? Do leave your ances- 
tois at peace! They are honored for their deeds; but you, my 

friends, are only tit for roastiyis." 



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STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 



I. (21) Fill the accompanying diagram with the princi- 
pal parts of the independent (principal) clauses found in para- 
graphs 1 and 2. 

SUBJECT. 



VERB. 



OOMPLBMBNT. 



2. (15) Give the construction of the subordinate clausei. 
in paragraphs 1, 3 and 5. 

3. (10) Give the construction of each infinitive phrase 
in the entire fable. 

4. (14) Give the construction of the words, that and 
what, each time of occurrence. 

5. (20) Give the construction of day, haffening, un- 
happy, zuay, hozu, c'ery, years, nothi)ig, friefids and roasting. 
(These words are italicized in the passage.) 

6. (4) Re-write paragraph 6, in an interrogative form, 
with a change of voice, mode and tense. 

7. (6) Give a synopsis of d7'ive in the 1st person, plu. 
pass. ind. 

8. (6) Give the infinitives of the verb r<?ac?. 

9. (7) Give the possessive singular of ^^^-s^, he, -peasant. 
ITow may we avoid using the possessive form of the first? 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 2nd, J895. 
I. I have seen the time when I would go a good w y 



to 



shoot a partridge, but I would not have killed, if I could, the 
one that started out of the vines that cover my rustic porch, 
as I approached that side of the house one autumn tnoming. 
How juuch of the woods, and of the untamable spirit of x.'ild 
.nature she brought to my I'^ry door! It was tonic and ex- 
hilirating to see her whirl awr.y toward the vineyard.— Bur- 
roughs. 

2. Beneath those rugged elms, that-yew-tree's shade, 
Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, 
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid. 
The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep. 

Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, 
Their furrow oft the stubborn glebo has broke; 

Hov/ Jocund did they drive their t .atns nfield 
How bow'd the woods beueath tlieir sturdy stroke 1— Gray. 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 



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3, 9thmo., 8, 1891. 

Dear Holmes.— I am most happy to know that I may ex- 
pect a visit from thee as soon as the present wet weather per- 
mits I need not tell thee how glad I shall be to see thee 
before I let go that "spar" and leave it to thee alone. This 
climate is hard upon us, but it is a part of our New England, 
and I would not exchange it for any other. 
Thy friend, 

John G. Whittier. 

I. (18) Fill the accompanying diagram with the princi- 
pal parts of tlie independent (principal) clauses found in para- 
graphs 1 and 2. 

COMPLEMENT. 



SUBJECT. 



VERB. 



II. (20) Give the construction of the subordinate clauses 
in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3. 

III. (10) Give the construction of each infinitive phrase 
in the passages. 

IV. (34) Give the construction of ivheti, way, one, that, 
morning, much, very, tonic, laid, jocund, afield. Holmes, present , 
spar, hard, part, other, (as italicized.) 

V. (6) Rewrite sentence one of paragraph 3, with entire 
change of voice. 

VI. (6) Conjugate the verb i-o in the pluperfect indica- 
tive; the verb see in the present subjunctive passive. 

VII. (6) Give the construction of the word that each 
time it occurs with a different use in passages 1 aod 3. 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, Jst, J896. 

[Note. In mentioning a phrase or clause, write the first word or two 
and the last word with an intervening dash. Constiiiction denotes not onlx 'he 
kind of eLment and, if adverbial what it u.xpresses, but also its relationship to 
some particular part of tho sentence. 

I. The true liberty of a man consists in his finding out, 
or being forced to find out tiic right path, and to walk there- 
on. ., To learn what work he is actually able for, and then oy 
permission, persuasion, and even compulsion, to set about 
doing of the same, Is his true blessedness, honor, liberty, 
and maximum of well being. If liberty be not this, 1 for ouf 
have small care about liberty. Carlyle. 



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STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 



2. Ay, faithful to Little Boy Blue they stand, 
Each in the same old place, 

Awaiting the touch of a little hand, 

The smile of a little face 

And they wonder, as waiting these long years through, 

In the dust of that little chair, 

What has become of our Little Boy Blue 

Since he kissed them and put them there. — Eugene Field. 

3. The Bander-log never meant to do any more, but one 
of them invented what seemed to him a brilliant idea, and 
he told all the others that Mowgli would be a useful person 
to keep in the tribe, because he could weave sticks together 
for their protection against the wind, so, if they caught him, 
they could make him teach them. Of course. Mowgli, as a 
wood-cutter's child, inherited all sorts of instincts, and used 
to make little plaj^-huts of fallen branches, without thijiMjig 
how he came to do it. The Monkey People, watch/w^'' in the 
tree tops, considered these huts most zuonderful. This time 
they were really go/>?^ to have a leader and become the wisest 
people in the jungle— so wi.se that every one else would notice 
and envy them. Kipling. 

I. (15) Fill the accompanying diagram with the princi- 
pal parts of the independent (principal) clauses found in 
paragraphs 1 and 2. 



SUBJECT. 



VERB. 



COMPLEMENT. 



II. (21) Give the construction of the subordinate clauses 
in paragraph 3. 

III. (10) Give the construction of each infinitive phrase; 
in the first two .sentences of paragraph 3. 

IV. (24) Give the construction of the following words, 
italicized in the paragraphs: doing, same, one, each, smile, 
years, idea, him, thinking, zuonderful, time, else. 

V. (8) Give the construction of zt'Aa^ and ^/ja/ each time 
of occurrence in paragraphs 1 and 2. 

VI. (6) Illustrate from paragraph 3, three distinct uses 
of the participle ending in ing. 

VII. (5) Write a sentence containing a relative pronoun 
Jn the possessive plural and show that the relative thus giveh 
has a double construction. 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONeJ. 15 



VIII. (5) State two methods of comparing adjectives, 
drawing suitable illustrations from paragraph 3. 

iX. (6) Give a synopsis in the lirst person plural indica- 
tive passive of the verb teach. 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 2nd, J 896. 
8o Credits, 

!• The maples bending o'er the gate, 

"Their arch of leaves just tinted 
With yellow warmth, the golden glow 

Of coming autumn hinted. 
Keen white beneath the farm- house showed 

And smiled on porch and trellis 
The fair detnocracy of flowers 

That equals cot and palace. — Whittier. 

2. The cardinals bower was the prettiest of the summer, 
built in a climbing rose which ran riot over a trellis beside a 
cottage door. The vine was loaded with buds just begin- 
ning to unfold their wraps to flood the place with beauty and 
fragrance, and the nest was so carefully tucked away behind 
the leaves that it could not be seen from the front. 

Qlive Thornb Miller. 

3* Wha(t a day to sun me ! Nay, I think 
Merely to bask and ripen is sometimes 
The student's wiser business. The brain 
Will not distill the juices it has sucked. 
Except for him who hath the secret learned, 
To mix his blood with sunshine. — Lowell. 

4. We have now the honor to submit to the considera- 
tion of the United States in Congress assembled that Consti- 
tution which has appeared to us the most advisable. That it 
will meet the full and entire approbation of every state is 
not perhaps to be expected; but each w.ill doubtless consider, 
that, had ner interests alone been consulted, the consequences 
might have been particularly disagreeable or injurious to 
others. That it is liable to as few exceptions as could reason- 
ably have been expected, we hope and believe; that it may 
promote the lasting welfare of that country so dea-c to us all 
is our most ardent wish. 

— Letter of the Convention to Congress. 

I. (16) Fill the accompanying diagram with the princi- 
pal parts of the independent propositions (principal clauses) 
found in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3. 

6VBJECT VERB COMPLEMENT 



16 STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 



II. (17) Give the construction of the subordinate clauses 
i n paragraphs 2 and 4. 

III. (10) (rive the construction of each infinitive phiase 
in paragraphs 2 and 3. 

IV. (16) Give the construction of words italicized in the 

passages: Arch, equals, built, riot, zvho (double Credit) advis- 
able, dear. 

V. (3) Ee-write the essential part of the last clause in 
paragraph 3, with a change in voice, number and mood. 

VI. (4) Give the possessive singular and possessive plu- 
ral of leaves, of him. 

VIL (4) Select from the paragraph four words and show 
that each one may have some other use i. e. be used in 
another construction. 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, Jst, 1897. 

73" Credits. 

1. "He does look very zw^," said little Gluck, "I will just 
let him in for a quarter of an hour." Rotind he went to the 
door and opened it, and, as the little gentleman walked in, 
there came a gust of wind through the house, that made the 
old chimneys totter. — Ruskln. 

2. That all this might not be too burdensome on the 
purse of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the cost 
of schooling a grevious burden, he had various ways of render- 
ing himself both useful and aereeable. — Irving. 

3- Shut in from all the world without, 

We sat the clean-winged hearth about. 

Content to let the nortb-wind roar 

In baffled rage at pane and door, 

While the red logs before us beat 

The frost line back with tropic heat.— Whittier. 

4. You call them thieves and pillagers; but know, 

They are the winged wardens of your farms, 
Who from the cornfields drive the insidious foe. 

And from your harvests keep a hundred harms; 
Even the blackest of them nil, the crow. 

Renders good service as your man-at-arms. 
Crushing the beetle In bis coat of mail, 

And crying havoc on the sluggard snail. — Longfellow. 

I. (8) Point out the principal parts of the independ- 

ent clauses In paragraph 4. 

II. (8) Give the construction of the sul^ordinate 

clauses in 1 and 2, omitting the quotation 
in 1, 

ni. (2) Give in two words a description of the sen- 
tence In 3. 

IV. (6) Give the construction of the Infinitives in 2 

and 3. Omit rendering. 



STATE 150AKD KXAJMIN A'lIONS. 17 

V. (36) Give the construction of the following as Itali- 

cized in the passages. fVei,' round, totter^ that, 
burdensome, useful, shut, about, contetit, north- 
wind, before us, tropic, blackest, all, crow, man- 
at-arms, crushing, havoc. 

VI. (2) What is the antecedent of Az5 In line seven of 4? 

VII. (4) Point out the double office or use of a relative 

pronoun, choosing an illustration from 1. 

VIII. (6) Rewrite the first three lines of 4, with a change 

of voice, 

IX. (3) Give synopsis of sat (second line of 3,) in the first 

person plural indicative. 



ENGLISH GRAIV.MA.R, 2d, 1397. 

75 Credits. 

I. Jiine, of all months, the student of o^-nithology can 
least afford to lose. Most birds are nesting then. And what 
is a bird without its song? Do we not wait for the stranger 
to speak? It seems to me that I do not know a bird till I 
have heard its voice. — Burroughs. 

t. Above our heads the sullen clouds 

Scud black andsiv/7it across the sky: 
Like silent g-ftost^s in misty shrouds 
Stand out the white light-houses high, 
Almost as far as eye can reach 
I see the close-reefed vessels fly, 
' As fast we flit along the beach, — 

One little sandpiper and /. — Celia Thaxtor. 

3. Pleasant it was, when woods were green, 
And winds were soft and low, 
To lie amid some sylvan scene, 
Where, the long drooping boughs between. 
Shadows dark and sunlight sheen 
Alttrnate come and go. — Longfellow. 

4. You, my friend, will need another cupful to wash the 
dust out of your throat, if it be as thick there, as it is on 
your coiuhide shoes. ****** Tiiere, my dear child, 
put down the cup, and yield your place to this elderly 

fentleman, who treads so tei'lerly over the paving-stones, 
hat I suspect he is afraid of breuking them, 

—Hawthorne, Town Pump. 
I. (18) Fill the accompanying diagram with the princi- 
pal parts of the independent propositions (principal clauses', 
found in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3. 

SUBJECT. VERB. COMPLEMENT. ^ 



18 iSTATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 

2. (10) Give the construction of the subordinate clauses 
in 4, 

3. (8) Give the construction of an infinitive phrase from 
each of the four paragraphs. 

4. (25) Give the construction of the following words as 
italicized in the passages:— June, stranger, that, swift, ghosts, 
fast, I last -duord of 2, boughs, alternate, co'whide, there, who, 
(3 credits). 

5. (4) Rewrite the last sentence of 1 with a change ot 
voice, omitting nothing from the thought. 

6. (6) Give the infinitives of the verb see. 

7. (2) Give the corresponding possess! ves for the nouns 
in the first sentence of 1. 

8. (2) Give the r "incipal parts of the verbs lose and go. 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, Jst, J898. 
60 Credits. 

1. We knew everytlii.ng in those days, we aimless knights, 
errant with dinner-pail and slate; the dry, frosty holioiv 
where gentians bloom when the pride of the field is over, the 
woody slopes of tl -t hepatica's awakening, under coverlet of 
withered leaves, and the sunny banks where violets love to 
live with their good gossip, the trembling anemone. At noon 
we roved abroad into the solitudes so deep that even our un- 
suspecting hearts sometimes quaked with fear of dark and 
lontjsomeness: and then we came trooping back at the sound 
(if t)ie bell, untamed, happy little savages, ready to settle 
with a long breath, to the aVternocu's drowsy routine. 

—Alice Bkoavn. 

2. A mellow voice Fitz-Eustace had, 
The air he choose was wild nnd sad : 
Such have I heard, in Scottish land, 
Rise from the busy harvest band, 
When falls before the mountaiuecr, 
On lowland plains the ripened ear. 
Oft have I listened and stocd stiil 
As it came sottencd up the hill, 
And deempd it the lament of men 

Wno languished for their native glen. — Marmoin. 

J. And lay my bent bow by my side, 
Which was my music sweet; 
And make my grave of grave! and green 
Which is most right and meet. 

Let me have length and breadth enough. 

With a green sod under my head; 
That they may say wlien I am dead. 

Here lies bold Robin Hood. —Old English Ballad. 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. IS 

4. Look under that broad beech tree I sat down, when 
I was last this zvay a fishing-; and the birds in the adjoining 
grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, 
whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree near to the 
brow of that primrose hill. There I sat viewing the silver 
streams glide silently towards their center, the tempestuous 
sea; and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless 
lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others 
sported themselves in the cheerful sun. 

— IsAAK Walton. 

I. (7) Fill the accompanying diagram with the princi- 
pal parts of the independent propositions (principal clauses) 
found in paragraphs 1 and 4. 

SUBJECT. VEKB. COMPLEMENT. 



2. (22) Give the construction of the subordinate clauses 

in all the passages, omitting relative clauses. 

3. (6) Select from the passages three infinitives having 
unlike syntax and give their construction. 

4. (10) Give the construction of the following as itali- 
cized in the passages: 1, hollovj. 2, deef. 3, such. 4, still. 
5, softened. 6, la?nent. 7, music. 8, enough. 9, zvay. 10, 
leap>ing. 

5' (8) Give the double construction of the relative pro- 
nouns found in the passages. 

6. (7) Give the principal parts of the verbs in para- 
graph 3. 

ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 2nd, 1898. 

60 Credits. 

!• In May, when sea winds pierced our solitudes, 
I found the fresh rhodora in the woods, 
Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, 
To please the desert and the sluggish brook. 
The purple pettles, fallen in the pool, 
Make the black water with their beauty ^ay. 
Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, 
And court the flower that cheapens his array. 
Rhodora, if the sages ask thee whv 
This charm is wasted on the marsh and sky, 
Dear, tell them that, if eyes were made for seeing, 
Then beauty is its own excuse for being. 

— Emerson. 

a. "I delayed until «ow," the rabbi answered calmly, 
"so that thou mightst know that I return thy diadem, not 
for the sake of reward, still less out of fear of punishmentj 



20 STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 

but 5o/^/j' to comply with the Divine Command not to with- 
hold from another the property which belongs to him." 

—The Talmud. 

3. I suppose I have burned up a good sized tree to- 
night. I settled with Mr. Tarbell for it the other day^ but 
that wasn't the final settlement. I got off cheaply from him. 
At least one will say: "Let us see, hoiu much wood did you 
burn, sir?" And I shall shudder to think that the next 
question will be, ''What did you do while you were warm?" 

— Thoreau. 

I. (8) Fill the accompanying diagram with the princi- 
pal parts of the independent propositions (principal clausesl 
louiid in paragraph 1. 

SUBJECT. VER15 COMPLEMENT. 



2. (8) Give the construction of the subordinate propo- 
sitions (clauses) in paragraph 2. 

3. (4) Give the construction of the quotations, taker 
as wholes, in paragraph 2. 

4. (8) Give the construction of the infinitives in para- 
graphs 2 and 3. 

5. (3) Re-write the first three lines of paragraph 1, with 
a complete change of voice. 

6. (2()) Give the construction of the words italicized in 
the paragraplis. 

(1) fallen, (2) gay, (3) flumes^ (4) court, (5) zuhy, (6) deai-, (T) 
nozu, (8) that, (9) solely, (10) not, (11) dry, (12) htnv, (13) xvhat. 

7. (3) Choose three words from the paragraphs and em- 
poy each in short sentences to show that it may belong tc 

mlore than one part of speech according to its use. 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 1st, 1899. 

60 Credits. 

St. Agnes' Eve.— Ah, bitter chill it was! 

The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; 
The hare limped /r^wW/w^ through the frozen grass; 
And silent were the flock in wooley fold; 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIOifS. 21 



Numb were the Beadsman's fingers while he told 
His rosary, and while his frosted breath, 

LJke pious incense from a censer old, 
Seemed taking flight for heaven. 

— Keats. 

2. I think there is no part of farming ivMch the boys en- 
joy more than the making of maple sugar. It Is better than 
blackberrying, and nearly as good as, fishing-; one reason why 
he likes this work is that somebody else does the most of it. It 
is a sort of work in which he can appear to be rery active and 
yet not Aomuch. —Charles Dudley Warner. 

Then he chose the stoutest bow amongst them all, next to 
Robin's own, and a straight gray goos? shaft, well-feathered 
and smooth, and stepping to the mark, while all the band, 
sitting or lying upon the greensward, watched to see him 
shoot, he drew the arrow to his cheek and loosed the shaft 
rzVA^ deftly, sending it so straight down the path that it clove 
tlie mark in the very center. "Aha!" cried he, "mend thou 
that if thou canst;" zvhile even the yoem'am clapped their 
hands at so fair a shot. ^ -^ t 

"T-Aa^ is a keen shot, indeed," quoth Eobin, "mend it 1 
cannot, but mar it I may, perhaps." . „ , ^^ i 

—Robin Hood. Pyle. 

I. 3. (7). Fill the accompanying diagram with the 
principal parts of the propositions (clauses) found in passage 1. 

SUBJECT. VERB. CO^VLFLEMENT. 



II. (16) Give the syntax (construction) of the subordinate 
propositions (clauses) in passage 2 and in the first sentence of 3. 

III. (4) Give the syntax (construction) of tlie infinitives 
in the first sentence of passage 3. 

IV. (4) Give the mood of each finite verb in the last two 
sentences of passage 3. 

V. (2) Rewrite the second sentence of passage 2 with a 
change of voice. 

VI. (3) Rewrite the fiist sentence of 2, putting the finite 
verbs in the past perfect (plu-perfect) tense. 

Vn. (24) Give the syntax (construction) of the follow- 
ing words (italicized in the passages): . 

, 1 trembling, 2 which, 3 fishitig, 4 why, 5 that, 6 active, 1 
mitch, 8 all, 9 goose, 10 right, 11 while, 12 that. 



22 STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 2d, 1899. 

Sixty Credita. 
This examination must be written Monday, May 29, 9 a. m. 

[Note.— In mentioning a phrase or clause, it is sufficient to write the first 
word or two, and the last word with an intervening dash. Construction denotes 
not only the kind of element, and, if adverbial, what it expresses, but also its 
relationship to some particular part of the sentence.] 

I. Haraelin town's in Brunswiclc, 

By famous Hanover city; 
Tlie river Weser, deep and wide. 

Washes its walls on tlie soutliern side; 
A pleasanter spot you never spied 

But, wlien begins my ditty ^ 
Almost Ave hundred years ago. 

To see the tozvnsfolk stiffen- so 
From vermin was a pity. 

—The Pied Piper of Hameiin. 

2. The robber, ^'rt/^^^■«^ himself liighly upon the precau- 
tions he had taken, triumphantly conducted his captain to 
tlie spot; but great indeed was his confusion and dismay, 
when he found it impossible to say which, among fifteen houses 
marked exactly alike, was the right o7ie. 

—All Baba, or The Forty Thieves. 

3. It often comes about in this world, that unlucky hap- 
penings fall upon one in such measure that it seems, as the 
saying IS, that every cat that one strokes flies into one^s face. 
Ihus It was with Kobin Hood and Little John one bright day 
in merry May time. So listen and you shall hear how Dame 
L.UCK so butteted them that their bones were sore for many a 
day thereafter. 

Adventures of Eobin Hood. 

•• (12). Fill the accompanying diagram with the princi- 
pa parts of the independent propositions (princi- 
^ pal clauses) found in passages 1 and 2. 

SUBJECT. ^-JEU15. COMl'LBMENT. 



(16). Give the construction of the subordinate proposi- 
tions (clauses) in passages 1 and 3. 

(26). Give the construction of the following words itali- 
cized in the passages: (1) wide, (2) dity, (3) 
years (4) townsfolk, (5) suffer, (6) valuing, (7) 
wftich {^) one, (9) that, (10) that. (11) day, (12) 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 23 



(3). Account for the number of zvas each time of oc- 
currence in passage 2. 

(3). Rewrite with change of voice the lirst member (or 
clause), of passage 2. 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, Jst, 1900. 
Forty Credits. 

». He had now entered the skirts of the village. A troop 
of strange children ran at liis heels, hooting after 
him, and pointing at his gray beard. The dogs, too, 
not one of zvMch he recognized for an old acquaint- 
ance, barked at him as he passed. * * * His mind 
now misgave him; he began to doubt whether both 
he and the" world about him were not bewitched. 
—Irving, Rip Van Winkle. 

2. I met a little cottage girl; 

She was eight j'^ars old, she said. 
Her hair was thick with many a curl 

That clustered round her head. 
She had a rustic, woodland air, 

And she was wildly clad; 
Her eyes were fair and very fair; 
Her beauty made me glad. 

—Wordsworth, We Are Seven. 

1. (10) Give the construction of the subordinate clauses 

in both passages. 

2. (5) Rewrite the last sentence of passage 1 with a 

change of number. 

3- (4) Rewrite the lirst and second lines of passage 2 

with a change of voice. 

4- (11) Give the construction of the following words as 

italicized in tlie passage: (1) hooting, (2) ivkich, 
(3) doubt, (4) and, [b) years; (6) thick, (7) that, (8) 
fair, (9) glad. 

5« (4) Give the possessive plural of her, me, zL'hich and 

eyes. 

6. (6) Give the infinitives of ynade (last line of passage 2) 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 2nd, 1900. 

Forty Credits. 

There was a salt marsh that bounded part of the millf 
pond, on.the edge of which, at high water, we used to standi 
to fish for minnows. By much trampling we had made it a mere! 
guagmire. My proposal was to build a wharf there tit for us 



24 STATE BOAKD EXAMINATIONS. 

to stand upon, and I sho\\td my co7urades a large heap of 
f-tones uhichwere intended for a new house near the ???ars//, 
and which would very well sifit our purpose. Accordingly in 
the evening, when the workingmen were gone, I assembled a 
number of my playfellows, and wen king with them diligently, 
like so many fww<'/5, sometimes 1v\() or tiiree to a stone, we 
brought them a// away and built our little wharf. The next 
morning the workingmen were surprised at missing the stones, 
which' were found in our wharf. Inquiry was made after the 
removers; we were discovered, and complained of; several of 
us were corrected by our fathers: and, though I pleaded the 
usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was 
useful which was not honest. — Benjami,p Franklin. 

(6) Give the use (construction) of each adverbial or 

substantive clause found in the passage. 
(8) Give the use of two of the root infinitives (known 

by the sign to) found in the passage. 

(3) Point out the use (syntax construction) of that 
both times of occurrence in the passage. 

(4) Point out the use (construction) of zuhich in the 
second line and* again In the last line. 

(10) Point out the use (construction) of ten of the fol- 
lowing words as italicized in the passage: (1st) 

much, {1) quagmire, (3d) comrades, (4th)^^, (5th) 

us, (6th) marsh, (7th) luorking, (8th) emmets, 

(9th) all, (10th) stones, (11th) mine, (12) me, 

(13th) honest. 
(6) Rewrite the last sentence with a change of voice 

throughout. 
(3) What is the distinction between an infinitive 

and a participle? 
Or, Give the intinitive of the first two verbs 

found iu the passage. 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 



ARITHMETIC, Jst, 1890. 

Note. — Operations as ivell as results are required. 

1. (12) Reduce 91 to an improper fraction, giving reasons 

for operations. (6). 
Reduce ^%^ to a whole or maxed number, giving 
reasons for operations. (6). 

2. (12) A 63 gallon cask is % full; 9^ gallons being drawn 

off, what fractional part of ttie whole -remains? 

3. (14) Reduce, 1944| to a simple fraction in Its lowest 

terms. (7). 
Multiply 64-661 by 18.9 (7). 
i. (12) The Julian calendar assumed the length of the 
year £ts 365 da., 6 hr., instead of 365 da . 5 hr., 
48 min., 48 sec, its true length; in how many 
years did the difference -amount to a whole day? 

5. (12) Solve the following by proportion: A man has a 

bin 7 ft. long, 2J ft. wide, and 2 ft. deep, which 
contains 28 bu.; how deep must he make an- 
other which is to be 18 fjfc. long and 1| ft. wide, 
in order to contain 120 bu? 

6, (14) Having the amount, the r^te and the time, how 

may the principal be found? (7) 
Explain wliy this gives the correct result? 
7> (12) In what time will any sum of money double itself 

at 8 per cent.? (Solutipn 6, analysis e>) 
8. (12) Extract the square root of 344.4736. 



ARITHMETIC, 2d, 1890. 

Note. — Oferations as iveli^as results are required, 

I. (12) Tell bow to find the least conynon multiple of 
several numbers and give the reasons for the 
operations. (Method 5, reasons 7.) 

2. (12) By means of cahcell-ation divide the product of 75 
153,iand 28 by 63 times 36, 

3« |13) Gi"ve»and demonstrate' (l..e. state reasons for) tl^e 
rule for adding common fractions. (Rule 6, 
dernonstratioh S.) 



26 STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 

4. (12) B bought I of a farm of 2i9a acres, and sold f of 

his part; what part of the whole, and how many 
acres did he seH? 

5. (14) Multiply 5 sq. yds. 8 sq. ft. 106 sq. in. by 13. Re- 

duce 25 rods 2 yds. 2 ft. to the decimal of a mile. 
(7 each.) 

6. (12) Give the United States Rule for partial payments. 

7. (13) French cloths, after paying 30 per cejit. duty and 

other charges amopnting 'to $73.80, cost in store 
$7,389.03; at what were they invoiced? (Solution 
6, analysis 7.) 

8. (12) A man left ^^ of his property to his wife, § of the 

remainder to his son, and the balance, $40.00 to 
his daughter; what was the estate? (Solution 
6, analysis 6.) 



arithmetic; Jst, I89I. 

}^ote. — Operati07is as if ell as resulls are required. 

I. (7) Explain how to find the prime factor's of a number. 
(7.) Explain how we know that a factor of any 
two numbers is also a factor of their sum and of 
their difference. 
3. (12) I exchange 8 barrels of molasses, each containing 
33 gallons, at 40 cents a gallon, for ten chests of 
tea, each containg 24 pounds. How much a 
pound did the tea cost me? (Solution 6, analy- 
sis 6.) 

3. (7) State what operations upon a fraction multiply it, 

what divide it, and what leave it upclaanged in 
value. (7) Tell how to reduce an improper 
fraction to a whole or niixed number, and give 
the reason for the operation. 

4. (12) A person performs a journey in \\\ hours at Z\ 

miles per hour. Find how long it would take 
him at 5^ miles per hour. 

5. (12) A merchant sells 35 per cent, of his stock for 

$6,000. What is the entire stock worth? (Solu- 
tipn 5; analysis 7.) 

6. (12) What principal at 4i per cent, will amou'nt to 

$4,613.36 in 3 years, 1 month, 7 days? (Solution 

6, analysis 6 ) 
7- (12) Extract the square ij?ot of 11,881. 
8. (12) A fuah left j^i of his property to his wife, I of the 

reiiifeinder to his son, and the balance, $4,000 to 

his daught-er. What was the estate? 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 27 



ARITHMETIC, 2nd, J89I. 
Note — Oj)erations as zueli as results are reqtiired. 

1. (6) How may the least common multiple of two o» 

more numbers be found? 
(6) Give the reasons for the operations. 

2. (12) One man starts after another who is 1 mi. 4. fur. 

20 rds. ahead of him, and gains upon him 5 rods 
in going 25; how far must he travel to overtake 
the other? (Solution 5, analysis 7.) 

3. (12) A man has a corner lot, 1,044 feet long and 744 feet 

wide. He wishes to build a board fence along 
two adjacent sides with the fewest panels of 
equal length; what must be the length of the 
panels? 

4- (5) What is a cancellation? 

(5) The operations in cancellation depend on what 

principles? 
(5) Find, by means of cancellation, the quotient of 
125X160X24X42 divided by 25X 120x36X5. 

5. (5) Give the rule for adding fractions. 

(8) Demonstrate the rule, i. e., give the reasons for 
the operations. 

6. (12) Solve the following by proportion: If 3 men, working 

ten hours a day, can plant a tield 150 rods by 240 
rods, in five days, bow many men, working 12 
hours a day, can plant a field measuring 192 rods 
by 300 rods, in 4 days? 

7« (12) Give the principal, interest and time; tell how to 
find the rate, giving analysis. (Method 4, analy- 
sis 8.) 

8. (12) Extract the cube root of 5,735,339. 



a. 



ARITHMETIC, Jst, 1892. 

(2) Divide 45,003,004 by 3074. Prove. 

(4) Abbreviate and divide by short division: 

(a) 804,690 by 300; 

[b) 2,400 by 3,000. 
Kc) 18,460 by 5i. 

(5) State the principles applied in abbreviating. 

(3) Write the prime factors of 84, 180, 216 and 500. 
(2) Write the prime factors from to 60. 

(2) Define and illustrate the ditference between 

prime and an even number. 

(3) Express in 36ths the following: ,'^, J,. J, |, i, , 

S> *• 
l2) State the principles applied in these reductions. 



28 



STATK BOARD EXAMINATION B. 



8. 



(One credit each.) 
c Explain the dmerent unit values ^ 

rds. . 

fR\ f/>\ TTsiutr intcgevs and decimals: . 

^^^ ^'^ ^ll9'sq.ln-insq.yds.;782bu.inpints. 

6 (7) («) Express in lowest terms, fractional form, the 
%Defc?nt;25percent.; m per cent ; 20 

i of 12 is.... per cent, otb; .5 per ceni. oi 
is ... . per cent, of 24. 
4s-(6|X|0_ 
7. (4) Simplify: 2f+(8f=r3i,) 

(0, A and B set ou. 1;^^^,^;^^^^^ Sm^l 

directions. A suiii^ -^ I'^-i^'^ '^3 miles per 

traveled 4i hours? o or.H ^^ 

ronton isV; required the time at London 

ITlOverceJt-lOoSml at $7. 50. per barrel , and 
what remained at a loss of 5 per cent. What was 
the per cent, of loss or gain. 

1 iftSQ «i ^^iiv .Tulv 2o, lo»y, st^rOi -utc. ^j, -^"^ ' 
fewfMay'f i89r»600. What was due July 4, 

„. ,G, fS men in 1^ days working 10 hours a da, 

day to make a similar pavement 180 tt. long ana 

12ft.»wide'? Solve by proportion. 
13. (4) Fiiid the square root of 4,2bp,854 Prove. 
M. (1) The base ot a triangle is 248, and its altitude is wb, 

What is its area? 



lO. 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. >"29 

15- (4) The circumference of a circle is to the diameter 
as 3f to 1. What is the circumference of a 
wheel, the radius of which is 8| feet? 



ARITHMfiTIC, 2d, 1892. 

1. (3) Add 66,T58: 49,877; 69,785; 84,699; 46,987; 97,765; 

69,984; 54,686; 78,467; 85,679. Write the answer 
in words. 

2. (4) Express in 72nds the following:—!, i, {^. f , |, f, |, 

A- 

(3) Explain the first reduction. 

3- (2) Solve by cancellation fxffXi%. 

(2) What mathematical opera'tion do you perform in 
cancellation? 

4' Abbreviate so as to divide by 5, short division: 

(1) 7500-^500; 

(2) 7,500^50; 

(2) 750. 00--. 05000. 

(4) State the principle upon which you abbreviate. 
5' (1) 215 is how many 4ths of 172? 

(2) Exf^lain. 
6. (2) Make an example which will require the operation 
24X|. 
(2) Solve. 
7- (3) What is the value of the S. E. quarter of W. 
half of section one at $8.50 per acre. 

(2) Make diagram to show location. 
8. (4) Reduce 2 in. to decimal ot a rod. 

(4) Reduce i sq.-ft. to a«decimal of ftn acre. 
(4) Reduce ..756 barrel to integers of Ipwer denomina- 
tions. 
9- (5) Bought wheat and sold it for $3760.35, losing | per 

cent. What did it cost? 
'o- Write the following transactions in the form of a 

bill, supplying -names and dates.' 
(4) Sold 60 2 in. plank 18 in. wide and 18 feet long @ 

$15 per m.; 
(7) 1680 lbs hay @ $8 per ton; took In part payment 
625 lbs. nails @ 4i cts. lb. Find amount, due. 
«'• (3) Bought 637 lbs, nails @ 4 cts. lb. and sold them at 
5c. per lb. What was the per cent, gained? 

(3) If they had been sold at 3c. per lb., what would 

ha've been the per cent, of loss. 

(4) Explain. 

<3. (5) Find tlie cost of a fence 4»strands high, around a 
square 10 acre lot, posts 1 rod apart, wire worth 
2g. per rod, and posts 8c. apiece. 



30 



STATE BOAKD EXAMINA'J IONS. 



id (3) Make a note for $500 payable to order in 90 daja, 

(3) Find amount due. 

14 Taking all numbers tel\Neen 1 and 30 inclusne; 

(1) Write all prime numbers. 

(1) Write all even numbers-' 

(2) Write all composite numbers. 
(1) Write all odd numbers. 

,= (3) Write the results of the iollowing numbers: 76o; 
8.005; 85000; 5004.3, multiplied by 1000. 
(3^ The same divided by 10000. . 

(3) Add the results, and write the answer in words. 

ARITHMETIC, 1st, J 893. 

1 (10) The circumference of each fore wheel of a carriage 
,. (10) -L'J^f/^^^ ^^,j^f each hind wheel 12 teet; how 

Sany more turns will the lore w^heels make 
than tlie hind wlieels in going Horn ht. Jr'aul to 

fehakopee, 28 milesV 

2 (10) If a country 030 miles long be represented on a 
^ ^ raised map by a length of 5i feet, by what 

height, on the same scale, ought a mountain of 

15,750 feet be represented':' feolve by proportion. 
3. (10) A horse that cost ^ per cent, of $25,000 ^ as sold 

for $1,000; was there a gain or loss, and what per 

cent. 
A (15) Find the cost at 30 cts per sq. yd., of plastering 
^ ' the bottom and sides of a cubiclal cistern that 

will hold 300 bbls. 
5. (10) The ratio is 3i, the antecedent is i of |; What is 

the consequent.-' 
6 (151 The longitude of Boston is 71° 10 min. W., and 
^' ^^^ that Skw Orleans is 90° 2 mih, ^.: wtiat is 

the time at I^ew Orleans when it is 7 o clock U 

min. A. M. at BostonV 

7. (10) Divide. 1 by 5,000. Subtract i of i from fX (2—1), 

Place all the odd numbers from I'to 30 inclusive 
in a list, all that are composite in a second list, 
all that are even in a third list, and all hat die 
prime in a fourth list, repeating the numbers, 
if necessary. 

8. (10) 2 is what per cent, of 3? 3 is what Per ceBt. 2? 

5 is 12i per cent, of what number.^ What is Ibf 
percent of 30? ' 10 is 25 per cent, more than 
what number':' 
o. (10) Into how many lots must 6| acres be divided so a& 
to ha,ve h acres in each lotV 



STATJi KOAKD KXAMINATIONS 31 



ARITHMETIC, 2d, 1893. 

I- (10) Express in rods. 3 tenths o^ a mile. How many 
hundredtlis in 34.2? Express in pounds Troy li 
grains. 

2. (10) If a man walk 1.2 miles in 1 hour, how long will it 

take to walk 1 mile? Solve decimally, and then 

by common fractions. 
3 (9) A man sold | of his farm for $3,680, majiing 15 per 

cent, on the cost of the part sold; what was the 

cost of the farm? 

4. (10) Seven horses consume | of a pasture in 3 days; how 
long will it take three horses to consume the 
entire pasture? 

5- (10) A sidewal<k 500 feet long and 8 feet wide is laid 
with plank 2 inches thick and on three sleepers 
4x4 inches. What is tlie cost of the lumber at 
$16 per thousand, board measure? 

6. (10) A note is given May 15, 1889, for $3,789, interest 7 
per cent. One payment is made July 10, 1891,* 
of $2,357; what is the amount due April 27, 1893? 

7- (8) Taking f from § of a given number I have ^ left; 
what is the number? 

8. (5) What mathematical operation is perfornjed in 

cancellation? When a factor is cancelled what 
quantity remains? 

8 2i 15 6 27 
(5) Solve by cancellation -x— X— X x — 

9 6 21 lofg 4 

9. (8) A quotient fs 248; if the dividend be multiplied by 

16 and the devisor divided 12, what will the 

quotient become? 
lo. (7) Divide 4,856.0800 by 800. Contract the operation 

making the devisor 8, 
4 1. (8) A owes B $1,250, due in 9 months without interest. 

He settles at once, paying $1,200. To whose 

profit is the settlement, and how much, interest 

being. 6, per cent? 



ARITHMETIC, 1st, 1894. 

(5) Write one thousand forty-five and nine millionths; 
Write seven and nine ten-thousandths. 
;10) Multiply the 'sum of 2 856,107, and 3,006 by 2,003, 
divide the product by 9.002 and subtract the 
quotient from one million one thousand one. 
(8) Make out a bill to John Smith for five articles 
bought at H. B. Gray & Co.'s store and receipt It. 



32 STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 



A (10) If 6 be subtracted from each tei-m of the fraction 
'• ^ ' 1 will the value be increased or diminished? 
How much? 
no\ A man invests $5,280 in 3 per cent, bonds worth 

5. (10) A man ^^^^-^^^^J^^^'^ ^^^^ ^^.^y are 93 he sells, and 

loans the proceeds to a farmer on a mortgage, 
at 8 per cent. How much does he increase his 
income? 

6. (3) Find the L. C. M of 9, 12. 18, 24. 
(5) Analyze and explain the work. 

7. (9) How many steps of 2 ft. 4 in. each will it take to 

measure a mile? 
8 (10) Explain cancellation, illustrating by an example. 
g. (7) The population of a certain city has increased 2() 
^ percent, a year for the past five years. Two 

years ago it was 120,000. What was it hve years 

ago? 
(3) What is it now? 
,o (10) A real estate agent made $243.75 commission on 
^ ^ the sale of a business block. His terms were 5 

per cent, for the first $1,000, 2^ per cent, for the 

next $4,000, and li per cent, tor all above $5,000. 

For what was the block sold? 
1 1 (10) The assessed valuation ©f a town is $875,684.00. The 
* whole amount of tax raised m the town is 

$13,135.28. What is A's tax, his property being 

valued at $1,680. 

ARITl M5TIC, 2d, 1894. 

No credit vuill be aUozved where operations are not given in full. 

1. (12) Wliat part of 8 is %? What is | of f? What part 

of ^ is ^? 

2 . (15) Find how^ many pounds of sugar, at 7 cents and 11 

cents a pound, must be mixed with <5 p untis, 
at 12 cents a pound, so that the mixture may be 
worth 10 cents a pound. 

3. (6) In what time will a sum of money triple itself at 

10 per cent, interest? 

4. (9) Add \,\,h h^ and h- 

Multiply it by 3. 

Divide li by %. 
q (12) An agent sold cotton on commission at 5 per cent, 
and invested tlie proceeds in sugar, commission 

2 percent.; Ills commission on sugar alone was 
$57: what was the value of the cotton and of 
the sugar? 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 33 

6. (10) A square court is paved with 48,841 .stones, each 

one foot square; tind the size of the court. 

7. (12) A cistern which holds 100 gallons can be tilled from 

a pipe in 25 minutes, and emptied by a waste 
pipe in 45 minutes. If both are opened together, 
how long will it lake to fill the cistern, and how 
much water will be wasted? 

8 (12) What principal will produce $1,339.31 interest in 2 
years 7 riionths and 24 days at 7 per cent, 

9. (12) Keduce the following fractions to decimals, 4, i, i, 

31 2 1) II* 



ARITHMETIC, 1st, J895. 

Omz'/ any one of the follozving : 2, j, 4, 5, 6, <?, or 10. 

1. (12) Define (a) concrete or denominate number; (b) 

minuend; (c) factor; (d) discount. Give an ex- 
ample of each. 
IX 1.25 

2. (10) Simplify and express the result both a* a 

51—4.25 
common and decimal frai.-tion. 

3- (10) What would a pile of wood four feet wide, three 
and one-half feet high, and ten feet long, sell 
for, if wood was selling at $7.50 per cord? t 

4. (10) A post six feet high casts a shadow three feet six 
inches long, how high must another post be to 
cast a shadow twenty five feet long? 

5 (10) Find the amount of $750 for one year, four months 
six days, at 7 per cent. Simple interest. 

6. (10) The expenses of a concert were 40 per cent, of the 

receipts. The concert netted $300. What were 
the expenses? 

7. (15) A man borrows $5,000, at 6 per cent, interest, April 

10th, and buys wheat at 62i cents per bushel. 
On the 25th of the following May he sells the 
wheat at 67-J cents per bushel and pays his note 
for the $5,000 with int!erest. What was the 
amount of his profit? Suppose that he had not 
been able to make the sale for one year from the 
date of the purchase; would he have gained or 
lost, and how much? 

8. (10) Find the length of the diagonal of a three-foot 

cube? 
9' (13) A owns I of a farm: he sells ? of his share for 
$l-.350. How much would tlie whole farm have 
sold for at the same rate? 



34 STATE BOAKD EXAMINATIONS. 

lo. (10) Which has the greater capacity and how much 
greater— a cylindrical pail, one foot in diameter 
and fifteen inches deep, or a pail one foot 
square and one foot deep? 



ARITHMETIC, 2nd, J895. 

The examinee may om.it either the qth or loth question or any ttvo 
of the first eight questions. The total zuill then foot up 
joo fier cejit. 
i. (10) Give delinition of the following: 

per cent.; higlie st common divisor; 

quotient; least common multiple; 

ratio. 

2. (10) Give rules for the following: 

To lind the rate when base and amount are given. 
To find the base when rate and amount are given. 

3. a(10) f of 36 is i of what number? 
b 8 is ^ of what number? 

c 7 is what part of 15? 

d 2i is what part of 25? 

e 16 minutes is what part of a day? 

4- (10) When a tree of unknown height casts a shadow 75 

feet long, and a post 7 feet high casts a shadow 
4 feet and 8 inches long, what is the height of 
the tree? Explain eacli step. 

5- (10) A certain firm is capitalized at $10,000. B owns | 

of the stock. He sell ^ of his 6-tcck to C "V\ hat 
is the value of C's stock; what of Es aftet 
making the sale to C. 

6. (10) Two men working together dig a cellar in 8 days, 
and receive $35 for the job. "A" alone could 
have done the work in 14 days. If the pay is 
divided between "A" and "B" according to the 
amount of work each one did; how much should 
each receive? 

7- (10) A grocer bought 60 lbs. of tea at 25c a pound, and 
mixed it with 40 lbs. that cost 60c a pound. He 
sold the mixture at 58c a pound. Did he make 
or lose and what per cent.:* 

8. (10) B buys a house for $3,000; he spends ^ of the cost 
of the house in repairs. The house then burns 
up and he collects | of what the house has cost 
him, from the insurance companies. How much 
did he actually lose? 

9- (20) The piice of a single ticket from one town to an- 
other is 16 cents. The price of a commutation 
100-ride-ticket between the same places is $9 50. 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 35 



a (5) What per cent, is saved by buying the com- 
mutation ticket? 

b (1) What per cent, is lost by buying the single ticket. 

c (8) If a person holding a commutation ticket were 
to sell rides at 10 cents a ride, what per cent, 
would he gain on the cost? 
(20) On the first day of September, 1894, A borrows 
$2,000 at 8 per cent, interest; on the same day li 
borrows$3,000 at 6 per cent interest. They go 
into partnership and Invest their united capital 
in wheat at 47 cents a bushel. On the 15th day 
of January, 1895, they make a sale of this wheat 
for 55 cents a bushel. In the meantime they 
have paid 4 cents per bushel for handling and 
storing the wheat. Did each gain or lose, and 
how much? 



ARITHMETIC, 1st, 1896. 

1. A large pine tree casts a shadaw 48 feet long, a 

post 10 feet high, at the same time casts a 

shadow 6 feet in length. 
a (3) How high is the tree? 
b (6) What are the cubic contents of the tree if its 

average circumference is 15 feet? 
c (6) How many cords in the trunk if 25 per cent, is 

allowed for waste? 

2. (15) A is selling wood valued at $5.00 per cord at the 

rate of $1.20 worth for one dollar. 

B is selling the same grade of wood at the rate of 
90 cents on the dollar. 

I have a hundred dollars which I am going to in- 
vest in wood. Of which man should I buy and 
how much more wood would I get for my $100 
than if 1 should buy of the other man? 

3- (15) The diameter of the moon is .274 as great as that 

of the earth, and the diameter of the sun is 113 
times as great. Compare the volumes of these 
three bodies. 

4- Prom a piece of cloth measuring 48f yards a mer- 

chant cuts 9i yards. 
(1) What part of the whole was left? 
(1) What part remained? 

He sold 9i yards @ $1.25, and three months later 
sold the remainder at 85c a yard, throwing in f 
of a yard that was damaged. 
(3) How much did he receive for the whole piece? 
(10) State fully the principles involved. 

5- A man has a debt of $2,763.50 due him, but agreef, 

to accept 70 per cent, of it. 



36 STATE BOARD BXAftHNATlONS. 

* 

(10) How much will he receive, if the lawyer retains 

his fee If per cent, of what he collects? 
(5) State the principles involved. 

6. By selling a certain convSignment of goods @ a loss 

of li per cent, a total loss of $45 is incurred. 
a (5) How many dollars worth of goods were sold? 
b (5) If the goods had cost $100 less than they did 

and yet have sold for the same price, what would 

have been the rate of gain? 
(5) 1 cent is what per cent, of $1. 

7 per cent, of 7i=what? 

|of |=:what? 

3.3 is 3 per cent of what? 

45 is what per cent, of 25? 

7. (15) A. sets out to walk 100 miles. The first day he 

walks 60 miles, the second day he walks just half 
as fast, on the third day he walks just half as 
fast as on the second day. Supposing that he 
walks from 7 o'clock in the morning to 6 o'clock 
at night with one hour to rest at noon, what 
time on the third dav will he reach his destina- 
tion? 



ARITHMETIC, 2nd, )896. 

Operations should be giveii in the form of equations. Incorrect 
equations zuill be rejected. 

I. (10) Find the entire interior surface, in square feet, of 
a covered box 15 in. by 16 in. by 18 in. 

2. (10) By what number must seventeen and one-half be 
multiplied so that three-fourths of the product 
will be eiglity-nine and two-thirds? 

3- (10) Which is the better investment and how much: 

four and one-half per cent, bonds at 92, broker- 
age one and one-eighth per cent., or five and 
one-half per cent, bonds at 106, brokerage one 
and three-fourths per cent.? 

4- (10) A man liought a quantity of apples at 75 cents a 

bushel. If there was a waste of twelve and 
one-half per cent., at what price must he sell 
the remainder to make 25 per cent, on the 
transaction? 
S. a ih) Find the cost of 1,875 lbs. of hay at $6.50 per ton. 
b (5) Find the cost of the following bill of lumber: 
Eight pieces of 2 by 4s. 16 feet long at $12 per 
M, board measure. 1,812 feet of boards at $13 
per M. 



teTATK BOARD KXAMINATIOIJS. 37 

6. (10) What is the interest oa $1,200 from Sept, 23, 1895, 

to May 5, 1896, at 7 per cent, per annumy 

7. (10) Explain a cotninja mattiod of tinding the amount 

due on a note wlien partial pa^^ments have been 
made. 

8. (10) How many men can do | of a piece of work in 10 

days, it 8 nun can do the whole of it in 20 days, 
9- (10) The area of a square iield is ten acres. What is 

the distance between two oppcsite corners? 
»o. (10) Find the cost, at 50 cents a square yard, to paint a 

six-sided spire, 400 feet high, rising to a point, 

and being five feet on a siae at the base. 
> r . (10) ■ Make a square double the area of a given square. 
12. (10) A buys some 3ct. stamps and 12 more than twice 

as many 2ct. stamps, paying for all $1.3b. How 

many of each did he buy? 

»3- " {5) Give principles involved in cancellation. 

l> (5) Explain why the product obtained by multiply- 
ing one proper fraction by another is always 
less than either fraction. 



ARITHMETIC, 1st, J897, 

(.'>f/i-ss ana/ysis is reqiiircd indicate the operations by statement k 
in the form of equations. hicorrect equatio7is •will be 
rejected. 

1. o (ti) Find the cost of the lumber in a floor twenty feet 

long, 18 fcot wide and two inches thick, lumber 

costing $15.00 per thousand, 
b (2) Explain why the multiplier and product are not 

correct in the following equation: 8 ft. X 10ft.— 

64 sq, ft, 
c (2) Explain why the following equation is incorrect: 

60 per cent. =$100. 
2. ct (2) If I of the value of a farm is $200, what is f of 

the value? 
b (2) Express in integers the ratio of | to f ? 
c ci) What per cent, of § is I? 
d (2) I is how many seventh-fifths of i? 
e (2) f is how many tenths of §? 
3' (lOj Three pipes will fill a certain cistern in four hourF 

The first will fill it in eight hours. The second 

will it in twelve hours. How long will it take 

the third to fill it? Analyze. 
4. a (7) A certain reservoir will hold 216,000 cubic feet 

of water. What must be the sizj of a square 

pipe which will fill the reservoir in five 



38 STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 

hours if the water runs with a velocity of ten 
miles per hour? 
b (3) What would be the diameter of a circular pipe 
to till tlie reservoir in the same time? 

5. (10) A merchant aft.er discounting his asking price 

twenty per cent, njakes twenty per cent, on 
the cost. Wliat per cent on the cost would he 
have made had he obtained his asking price. 

6. (10) A floor 24 ft. 2 in. long and 18 ft, 11. in. wide is 

covered with carpet f of a yard wide and costing 
$1.00 per yard. How much will be saved by run- 
ning the strips the more economical way? 

7. (10) A house is sold for $4,000, 25 per cent of which is 

profit. What per cent, profit had the house 
been sold for $3,360? 

8. (10) After paying his agent 5 per cent, of the amount 

collected, a man received $1,436.40. What was 
the agent's commission? 

9. a (7) A man buys an article for 95 cents and makes five 

cents in selling it. He buys another article for 
80 cents and makes four cents in selling it. What 
per cent of the cost does he make in each sale? 

b (3) Write an example in "Stocks" using this example 
as a basis. 
10. a (5) From the external surface of a cubical box four 
feet wide substract the external surface of a 
sphere four feet in diameter. 

b (5) From the cubical contents of the box subtract 
the cubical contents of the sphere. 



ARITHMETIC, 2nd, 1897. 

Leave work in form of equations where possible. 
a (2) $832-^104%= ? 
$924^ 1.04= ? 
b (4) Wlien the cost is f of the selling price what is th e 

gain per cent? 
b (4) When the selling price is ^ of the cost what is the 

loss per cent? 
a (5) Three twenty-fifths is what per cent of |? 
b (5) If goods cost $260, and the profit on them is 125%, 

what is the selling price? 
a (5) How many rectangular blocks two inches by four 

inches by four inches wiW be required to build a 

block two feet by four feet by four feet? •■ 
b (5) The cost of | of anything equals what part of the 

cost of i of it? 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIOJSTS. 39 

4. (10) A Stick of timber is 15 inches broad and 11 Inches 

thick. What length of it will make 10 cubic 
feet? 

5. (10) What is the difference in rods in the lengths of 

two fences, one about a square field containng 
10 acres, and the other about a circular field 
containing the same amount? 

6. (10) In how many days of ten hours each will 7 men 

build a wall 15 feet long if 8 men can build a 
wall 10 feet long in 12 days of 8 hours each? 
Analyze. 

7. a (5) What is a pile of wood 12 feet long, 4 feet wide, 

and 8i feet high worth at $4.50 per cord? 
b (5) How many rods of fence will be required to en- 
close a triangle, whose area is 40 acres and 
whose base measures 128 rods. 

8. a (5) Find the solid contents of a cube the area of one 

face of which is 400 square feet 
b (5) A stack of hay will keep a cow 18 weeks, and a 
horse 12 weeks. How long will it keep them 
both? 



ARITHMETIC, 1st, 1898. 

Answer any six— no more; if more are attempted and the 
student does not designate which six he wishes to be graded 
upon, the first six answers will be taken. Indicate operations 
by equations. 

1. a (2) The cost of a horse equals how many eighths of 

two-fifths of its cost. 
b (2) The number of acres in a farm equals what part 

of the number of square rods in It? 
c (2) Into how many cubes one-fourth of a foot long 

can a cubic foot be cut? 
d (2) If the cubical contents of a large cube is eight 

times that of a small cube, how does the edge of 

the large cube compare with that of the 

smaller? 
e (2) Express in integers the ratio | to |. 

2. (10) A creditor receives $1.50 for every $4.00 of what 
was due to him, and thereby loses $301.05. What was the sum 
due? Explain. 

3. a (2) What part of a cubic foot is a broad foot? 

b (8) At $20.00 per M., board measure, what will the 

following bill of lumber cost? 
A stick of timber 30 feet long and 14 inches 

square. 
A plank 20 feet long, 8 inches wide, 2^^ inches 

thick. 



40 STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 

4. (10) A person asked for a tot of land 40% more than 
it cost him but finally reduced his price 15% of his asking 
price and then made $9.50. What per cent, did he make and 
how mucli did the land cost him? 

5. (10) Find the exact interest on $4,250 from May 12 to 
October 3, at 7 % . 

6. (10) What rate of interest do I realize on 6% stock 
purchased at 108? 

7. (10)' I owe a bill amounting to $219.75, and I give my 
note for 60 days. How must I draw it to cover the amount 
at7%? 

8. (10) Find the volume of a cube, the area of whose 
surface is 100.86 square inches. 

9. (10) What is the diameter of a circular piece of land 
containing 640 acres? 

10. (10) How many oranges must a boy buy and sell to 
make a protit of $9.30, if he buys at the rate of 5 for 3c, and 
sells at the rate of 4 for 3c.? 



ARITHMETIC, 2nd, J898. 

I. a (5) Explain why you cannot separate a concrete 
number into two like factors. 
b (5) Explain each step in the change of I to .625. 

2. (10) A man sold 24 horses for $150 each; on half of 
them he gained j^g of what they cost; and on the remainder 
he lost I of what they cost. Find his whole gain or loss. 

3. « (10) Divide $2,.38() between A and B so that i of 
A's share will be equal to I of of B's. Solve by analysis. 

4. (10) A merchant sold I of a quantity of cloth at a 
gain of 20%, and the remainder at cost. His gain was what 
per cent of the cost? If he gained $7.29, what was the cost of 
the goods? 

5. (10) What must be the face of a note so that when 
discounted at a bank for 4 mo. and 9 da. at 9%, it will give 
$240? 

6. a (5) What must I pay for 4% stock to get 5% on 

the investment? 
b (5) Analyze. 
7« (10) If 12 men do a piece of work in 21 da., in what 
time will 10 men do a piece of work It as great, if 3 of the 
first set do as much in an hour as 4 of the second set? 

8. (10) Each edge of a cube is diminished by ,"5 of its 
length. By what fraction of itself is the volume diminished? 
Rv what fraction of itself is the area of its surtaee dimin- 
ished? 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 41 



9. (10) How many cubical blocks, each edge of which is 
\ ft., are equivalent to a block of wood 8 ft. long, 4 ft. wide 
and 2 ft. thick? 

10. (10) A ladder 78 ft. long stands perpendicularly 
against a building. How far must it be pulled ou*"' at thf 
foot that the top may be lowered 6 ft? 



ARITHMETIC, 1st, 1899. 

Where possible fut zvork in the form of equations. 

1. a (5) Explain the solution of the following:— $8 are 

what per cent, of $100? 
b (5) Write the necessary equation for the following:— 
Reduce 300 feet to yards. 

2. a (5) t of a number exceeds | of it by 6. What is the 

number? 

b (5) If a staff 8 feet high casts a shadow 13 feet, what 
length of shadow will be cast by a pole 120 feet 
high? 

3. a (5) What will a pile of wood 12 feet long, 6 feet high 

and 4 feet wide cost at $5 per cord? 
b (5) What will 1650 pounds of hay cost at $6 per ton ? 

4 a (5) What must be paid for the use of $400 for 1 year, 

(i months and 12 days at 6%? 
b (5) How long will it take $25 to earn $5 interest at 
5%? 

5 a (5) A cube whose edges are each i of an inch long is 

what fraction of a cube whose edges are each li 
inches long? 

b (5) What part of the length of the side of a given 
square is the length of the side of a square con- 
taining half the area of the given square? 
6. If 24 men in live days can build a wall 72 rods 

long, how many rods of wall can 15 men build in 
6 days? 

a (5) Solve by proportion. 

b (6) Analyze. 



ARITHMETIC, 2nd, J899. 

Where possible fut vuork in theforyn of equations. 

1. a (5) Explain the solution of the following:— $8 are 

wha,t per cent of $100? 
b (5) Write the necessary equation for the following:— 
@ Reduce 300 feet to yards. 

2. a (5) I (it a number exceeds % of it by 6. What is the 

number':' 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 



b (5) If a Staff 8 feet high casts a shadow of 13 feet, 
what length of shadow will be cast by a pole 120 
feet high? 

3. a (5) What will a pile of wood 12 feet long, 6 feet high 

and 4 feet wide cost at $5 per cord? 
b (5) What will 1650 pounds of hay cost at $6 per ton? 

4. a (5) What must be paid for the use of $400 for 1 year, 

6 months and 12 days at Qfo? 
b (5) How long will it take $25 to earn $5 interest at 5% ? 

5. a (5) A cube whose edges are each f of an inch long is 

what fraction of a cube whose edges are each 1^ 
inches long? 
b (5) What part of the length of the side of a given 
square is the length of the side of a square con- 
taining half the area of the given square? 

6. If 24 men in 5 days can build a wall 72 rods long, 

how many rods of wall can 15 men build in 6 
days? 

a (5) Solve by proportion. 
* (6) Analyze. 



ARITHMETIC. 



a (4) A man changed 21 bushels of wheat for 36 bushels 
of oats. The wheat was worth GO cents per 
bushel, how much per bushel did the oats cost 
him? 
\Xl 37ix2 

* (3) h =? 

I 25X3 

c (3) A and B buy a store for $3,000. A invests $3 fca 
B's $2. How much of the $3,000 does each invest: 

a (2) Change ^^/j, to hundredths. 

b (2) Change 4H^ to a common fraction. 

c (2) Change g to a decimal. 
8 ? 

d (2) -==- 
11 2| 
6 ? 

e (2) — =— 
131 80 

a (2) I is how many per cent, of 5? 

b (4) A Lends $12 tor a year and gets 90 cents interest. 
B lends $20 for the same time and gets $1.70 
interest. Which gets the greater late of inter- 
est and how much greater? 

e (4) Di-vide $21 between A ^nd B so that A may have 
i as much as B. Anjuyze. 



STATE BOAliD EXAMINATIONS. 43 

a (5) Find the exact interest of $500 from Jan. 27, 

1893, to October 7tli of tlie same year; interest 

at 5 per cent. 
b (5) How many feet, board measure, in a stick 12 

inclies by 9 inclies and 20 feet long? 
a (5) A and B liave eacli a silver brick. B's is 50 per 

ceot. larger in each dimension than A's. If A's 

is wortli $1,000 how much is B's worth? 
* (5) How many bricks 2i inches thick, 4 inches wide, 

and 8 inches long will it take to fill a box 2i feet 

deep, 4 feet wide and 8 feet long? 



ARITHMETIC. 



Note. — In solving the first three, leave the work on paper, and in the form 
of equations where possifble. 

Ansiver any four. 

1. (10) If nails advance at wholesale from $1.50 to $3.80 

per keg, what per cent, profit must the retailer 
ask at each price so that his uniform profit may 
be $0.50 per keg? 

2. (10) A house and lot are worth $2,500. Money is worth 

6 per cent, per annum. Each year taxes are $25, 
repairs $20, and insurance $5. What rent must 
the owner ask that he may clear 4 per cent, on 
the value of the house and lot? 

3. (10) How many bricks are required to build a wall eight 

feet long, four feet wide, and two feet thick; if 
each brick is eight inches long, four inches wide 
and two inches thick? Make no allowance for 
mortar. 

Note.— Give the solution of the three following in the form of an analysis or 
explanation. 

4. ^10) In what time at 6 percent, will $100 amount to 

$10G.60? 

5« (10) How many tons of hay at $8.50 per ton must a 
farmer give in exchange for 13,750 feet of hard- 
wood flooring at $36 per thousand? 

6. (10) Two-thirds of A's money equals three-fourths of 
B's. What per cent, of A's money is B's? 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1st, I89I. 

Answer either of Sects. I. and /l—JVOT BOTH. loo Credits. 

I. a (1) What anniversary is our country to celebrate in 
1892? (1) How and where? '(3) Give a brief 
account of tlie discoveries that are to be com- 
memorated. 

b (2) Were there any discoveries of tlie western hemi- 
sphere prior to these? If so, why do we not 
commemorate those also? 
c (2) What nations were principally concerned in the 
exploration of America? (1) Which made the 
first permanent settlement? (1) Where, and 
when? (1) Which explored the territory that 
is now Minnesota? (1) Do any traces of their 
occupation of Minnesota exist now? 

H. a (2) What difference in character between the settlers 
of Massachusetts and those of Virginia? (4) 
What were the three principal towns of the 
Masachusetts colony and when was each settled? 
(2) For what was Salem noted? 
b (1) By whom was the city of New York founded? (1) 
What was its tirst name? (3) Why and where 
was the name changed? 
c (2) Wlio were the Huguenots, and what part did they 
have in the settlement of this country? 

"'• (4) Give some description of the natives of America 
when the Europeans first found them. (1) Whv 
were they called Indians? (1) How were thev 
treated by the Spaniards? (1) By the Dutch? 
(1) By the English Puritans? (2) In what 
colony did they receive the most humane treat- 
nie^it. and with what result? (4) ^Give a brief 
skelTch of the relations between the white men 
and Indians during the independence of this 
country. (1.) Do you think the Indians have 
been treated justly or unjustly? (2) What is 
the present condition of the Indians in Minne- 
sota? (2) In the Dakotas? 

IV. a (6) Describe fully the last great campaign of the 
Revolutionary War. (3) What was the treason 
of Benedict Arnold? 
* (1) Wheii was the constitutioji of the United States 
framed? (3) Describe the body that framed it, 
ffiving names of three prominent members. (1) 



STATE BOARD KXAMINATIONS 45 

How was it acloptecl? (2) What had been the 
basis of union among the colonies before this? 
What was the Northwest Territory? 
V. a (1) In whose administration did the United States 
acquire the territory that is now Minnesota? 
(1) From what nation? (2) What important 
invention was made during the same adminis- 
tration?. (3) Describe the first experiments made 
in steam railways in this country. (1) What 
influence have these two inventions had upon 
the history of the territory above mentioned? 
(4) How was territory along the Pacific coast 
acquired, and what discovery hastened its settle- 
ment and development? 
VI. b (2) What was the "Missouri Compromise?" (1) What 
otlier great compromise related to the same 
question? (4) Give th^ date of the latter and 
its principal points. (2) Name some of the 
leaders of the anti-slavery agitation. (1) Are 
any of them alive today? 

* (3) Describe briefly the events of Buchanan's admin- 

istration leading up to the civil war. (3) Sketch 
Gen. Grant's part in that war. 
c (1) What was the Emancipation Proclamation? (1) 
When was it issued? (1) What amendments to 
the Constitution confirmed the abolition of 
slavery? (2) What is meant by the phrase, "The 
New South?" 
VII. a (5) Name the Presidents of the United States from 
the close of the civil war to the present time, 
with dates of inauguration. 

* (5) Describe briefly the laying of the Atlantic cable, 

(when, and by whom accomplished?) The Cen- 
tennial Exposition. The gift of the Statute of 
Liberty, (from whom, and where placed?) The 
Pan-American Congress? Recent improvements 
In the U. S. Navv. (1) Name some recent in- 
. ventions for utilizing electricity. (2) What is 

meant by the doctrine of Protection? (1) What 
Important bill bearing on this doctrine Bas re- 
cently been passed by congress? 



UNITED STATES HISTORY, 2d, I89I. 

75 Credits. 

I. (2) By wtiat European was the Mississippi first visited, 

and when? 
3. (8) Of what nationality was each of the following, 



46 ST A 'IK noAlil) i:\AMINATlU>.S 



and what part of America did he explore. John 
Cabot, Henry Hudson, Ponce De Leon, Champ- 
lain. 

3. (2) What results of Sir Walter Raleigh's attempts at 

colonization? 

4. (3) Which colony drew up tiie first written constitu- 

tion for itself? When? Wliat was the nature 
of the document? 

5. (i) Who was Cotton Mather? 

6. (2) Who was the representative of the -Colonies in 

France during the Revolution? What result of 
his labors? 

7. (3) What two events in Jefferson's administration 

tended to the extension of the Republic west- 
ward? What were the popular views at that 
time regarding such extension? 

8. (2) What is meant by the "Monroe Doctrine?" 

9. What was the United States Bank, and when did 

it finally cease to exist? 

10. (3) Who was the poet of the Abolition agitators? 

The greatest orator? What book aroused pub- 
lic feeling against slavery? 

11. (10) Write a brief description of the personal char- 

acter of Abraham Lincoln. 

Who were his opponents in the election of 1860? 

What was General Sherman's greatest military 
achievement? General Thomas'? 

Describe, In ten lines, the siege of Vlcksburg. 

Describe, In the same space, the battle of Antie- 
tam. • 

How did Andrew Johnson become president? 

What was the cause of his jmpeachment, and its 
result? 

What recent event has called attention to the 
control of immigration? 

Name the members of President Harrison's cabi- 
net and their respective departments. 

Who is the present governor of Minnesota? Who 
represents the State in the U. .S. Senate? 



12. 


(1) 


"3. 


(2) 


14. 


(10) 


>5- 


(10) 


16. 


(1) 


>7- 


(1) 


18. 


(1) 


19. 


(8) 


20. 


(3) 



STATK r.UAKI) K-\ A Mi NATIONS. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 1st, 1892. 

AtiszL'er either A. or B. hi the first sect Pan, but not both. 



I. a (10) Name four Englisla, tttree Spanish^ two Frenfib, 

and one Ifefecli explorer, and trriieiy ftadixjafee 

the work of eacii. 
b (8) Give aa accoont of eitlaer Cfonmec-feteTit, Viigmiia 

or Maryland, from its foundation to t&e yestr 

1700. 
c (2) Wliat were the oikvigation aofes? A^bomfe wtiati^ 

was tli« po4>iriation of the colonies iii ITT^? 

B 

a (8) Describe two attempts at union ameEg the eot- 

on its before YiW. 
b (5) Who were Andros, Wiathfop, Sir H«niry Vaoie, 

Roger Wiriiams, Tliomas Hoofter? 
c (23 Who were the Green MwtiBtai'n Boys? 
d (2) Name the two principal Indian wars in N-ew Eng^ 

laud. 
e (3) Locate three coUjeges founded in the first century 

of English settlement. 

II. a (3) What texritory did England possess in North 

America in 1765? 
b (2) What territory did the Uniited States possess in 

1800? 
e (d) When, how, and from whom 'aave we acquired 
the rest of our territory? 
HI. (M) Describe Burgoyne's campril/gn or McClellan's 
Peninsular campaign, or Sherman's March to 
tlie Sea (giving purpose, story and ba,ttU-s, »r.(t 
result); or tell the full story "of the origin and 
settlement of the Alabamu claiins. 
IV. a (2) When did the Articies of Confederation go into 
effect? Wherf did the present constitution? 
b (2) What was the special weakness of the governmefit 

under the Articles of Confederation? 
c (2) Mention two compromises iti the pi-esent can&tl« 

tution. 
d (^ IfamB four leading members of the convention 
that framed it. 



48 STATK BOARD EXAMINATION'S. 



V. ^M&) Name the tirst ten presidents, telling how long 

each served. 

VI. a (6) Speak briefly of two attempts at "nullitication" 

before 18«0. 
b (4) Name the states that seceded in the I'ebellion. 
(Each error forfeits one credit.) 

VII. a (1) When was slavery introduced into the colonies? 
b (2) What two events early in this century led to its 

rapid extension? 

c (1) Wliat was the Missouri Compromise? 

d (2) When and how was it really repealed? 

e (4) What was the attitude of the four leading par- 
ties in 1860 toward slavery. 

/" (3) Name three noted ''abolitionists." 
Vlll.a ^2) What is Civil Service Reform? 

b (4) With what two countries has the United States 

had Some trouble during the past year? Give 

tlie occasion in each case. 
c (2) Name two of our latest built warships. 
d (4) Name four members of the present cabinet, and 

the position of each. 

e (2) How many Representatives and how many Sena- 
tors has Minnesota in tlie present Congress? 

/ (1) How often are changes likely to be made in the 
number of Congressmen from rapidly growing; 
states? 

^ (2) Where and when will the next Republican can- 
didate for presidency be nominated? 





(2) 


2. 


(5) 


3- 


(2) 


4- 


(5) 


5. 


(13) 


6. 


(3) 


7. 


(10) 



UNITED STATES HISTORY, 2nd, 1892. 
loo Credits. 

(1) What was Columbus seeking when he discovered 

America. 
What part of America did he reach? 
Give ajbrief account of the French explorations 

during the 17th century. 
When and by whom was Boston settled? 
What were the circumstances of the settlement 

of Maryland? 

Name the thirteen original states of the Union. 
How did they adopt their constitution? 
Describe, in t^n lines, the battle of Saratoga; the 

battle of Trenton. 



12. 


m 


«3- 


(3) 


«4. 


(10) 


•5- 


(10) 


i6. 


(5) 




» 


17- 


(2) 


i8: 


(5) 


19. 


(10) 


20. 


(1) 


"31. 


(4) 



STATK IIOAKD K.\ A .M 1 N AI'loNS. -1!) 



(1) Wliat was the work of Robert Morris dtiriny the 

Revokitiony 

(2) Name two principal tiaval victories of the war of 

1812. 

(2) Describe the beginning of the railroad system in 
American. 

(2) What state did Daniel Webster represent in the 
Senate? Henry Clay? 

Describe the first migration to California. 

What was the course taken by President Buchanan 
and his cabinet toward the Seceding States in 
I860? 

Describe, in ten lines, the first battle of bull run. 

Give, in the same space, General Sheridan's mili- 
tary achievements during the Rebellion. 

Name three Confederate generals and the president 
and vice president of the Confederate States. 

What territory has been added to the United 
States since the Civil War? 

What was the 15th Amendment to the Constitu- 
tion? 

Describe as fully as you ^an the relation of our 
country toward the States of South America, 
and any recent events bearing on it. 

Tell what you can of a great American author 
who has died during tlie past year. 

When was the last census of the United States 
taken? When will the next Presidential elec- 
tion occur? Where are the seal fisheries in 
which our Government is interested and what 
recent difficulty concerning them? 



UNITED STATES HISTORY, 1st, 1893. 

1. (8) Name three Spanish, one French, one Portuguese, 

and three English explorers, indicating briefiy 
the work of each. 

2. (12) Describe either Bacon's rebellion or Andros' rule 
^ in New England. 

3- (4) Who were Winthrop, Sir Henry Vane, Thomas 
Hooker, Cotton Mather? 



do STATK HOAKD EX.\:M INA'lIONS. 



What territory did the United States possess in 

1789? 

How, when, and from whom have we acquired 
the rest? 

What was the Missouri Compromise? 

When and how was it practically repealed? 

What was the declared position of the republican 
party toward slavery in 1860? 

ISTame four noted abolitionists. 

What was the "underground railway?" 

What matter is now under arbitration between 
our country and England? 

13. (15) Describe Hamilton's financial measures in Wash- 
ington's first administration; or describe fully 
the nullification troubles in the administration 
of Jackson. 

13, (10) Name the last ten presidents in order, with one 
important event in the administration of each. 



4. 


(4) 


5. 


(12) 


6. 


(8) 


7- 


(8) 


8. 


(6) 


9. 


(4) 


10. 


(5) 


II. 


(4) 



UNITED STATES HISTORY, 2d, 1893. 

I. (10) What European dis,covered Florida? The Pacific? 
The Mississippi? The St. Lawrence? The 
Hudson? 

a. (4) What king sent Andros to New England? What 
event in English history enabled the New 
Englanders to drive out Andros? 

3- (4) What rights of self-government did all the colonies 
have, and how did the different kinds of colonics 
differ in the degree of self-government? 

4' (10) Describe ofie of the following campaigns of the 
Kevolutionary War, giving purpose, story and 
result: Washington's retreat from Long Island — 
to the going'into winter quarters; Burgoyne's 
campaign; Green's campaign in the Carolinas. 

5. (8^ What was the Stamp Act? Why did the Ameri- 
cans object? Has our government ever raised 
money by a stamp act since? 

<S. (9) Under what government were the old colonies 
wlien the Revolntionary War began? In 1777? 
When /the war- ended? When did the present 
constitution go Into effect? 



7- 


(10) 


8. 


(4) 


9- 


(2) 


lO. 


(10) 


II. 


(5) 


12. 


(5) 


«3- 


(4) 


14. 


(15) 



STATE UOAKD KXAailNATIONS. 51 

Describe the nullilication troubles in Jackson's 
administration. 

What approach to this had there been before in 
the South'? In the North? 

By whom was the Omnibus Bill introduced in 1850. 

What were its chief provisions? 

Name the states that 'seceded in 1861. (One credit 
off for each error.) 

How were the states that had been in rebellion 
governed immediately after the Civil War? 

What quarrel grew out of the question how these 
states should be treated? 

Name Ave presidents in order, beginning just 
after Jackson, and mention one Important event 
in the administration of each. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Jst, J894. 

I. (10) What were the chief points of difference between 
the settlers of Plymouth Plantation and of Massachusetts Bay? 
In your answer, indicate the relative position of the two 
colonies regarding each point of difference. 

II. (2) When (or in connection with what event) were 
these two colonies finally united into one? 

III. (10) Treat of two attempts at union between the 
colonies before tlie Stamp-act Congress of 1765. 

IV. (6) Locate three colleges founded in the first century 
of Englisli settlement. 

V. (15) Describe one of the following campaigns (pur- 
pose, story and result): Washington's campaign in New York 
and New Jersey, opening wltli the battle of Long Island; or 
Sherman's March to the Sea; or the opening of the Mississippi. 

VI. (4) Name in order of time the two principal Indian 
wars in New England. . 

VII. (6) Name three leading members of the convention 
that framed our present constitution. 

VII. (15) Treat of the acquisition of our territory by 
our nation from the Kevolution to the present time, showing 
when, how and from whom we secured each addition. 

VIII. (15) What was the purpose of the Kansas-Nebras- 
ka bill? What former legislation did it really repeal? What 
was its affect upon political parties? 



52 STATE BOAKD KXAMlNA'l'lOJsS. 



X. (5) How were the states that had been in rebellion 
governed just alter the civil warV 

XI. (12) Who and for what noted were each of the fc-llow- 
ing: Winthrop, Jolin Cabot, Champlain, Cotton Mather. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 2d, J 894. 

I. a (()) Describe the important political difftrejices be- 
tween the three classes of colonies before the 
revolution. 

b (3) What degree of self government was common to 
ail of them. 

c (d) Kamc those that remained propiielary down to 
ihe revolution. 

d (3) What was the policy and purpose of James 11. 
toward the colonies':' 

■ c (2) What event in England led to the overthrow of 
that policy in America':' 

2. (10) Describe, in seven or eight lines, the settlement 
Df either Pennsylvania or Georgia (leader, purpose, character 
of settlers, early lustory and success.) 

3. (12) Under v\hal government were the colonies when 
the battle of LexingLon v\as loughf:' In nit)':' 'When tht 
war ended'? When did ihe present constitution go into eti'ect': 

4. a (24) Mention in order of time eight (8; leading events 
in the slavery struggle between 1»19 and 18tiO, 
showing the bearing of each ui,on the struggle"? 

b (5) State the attitude of our government towaicl 
slavery at the beginning 01 the rebellion. 

e (6) In what different ways was slavery linally abol- 
ished'? 

5. (10) Give the administrations since 1800 in order, with 
one important event for each. (One oti lor each error or 
Omission.) 

6. (10) What two economic questions are now most 
prominent in national politics':' 

7. (0) Describe the "Army of the Commonweal"' move- 
ment (the "Coxeyites'"), or tlie result of recent arbitration 
between this country and England. 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 58 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, 1st, 1895. 
Omit one question. lo credits each. 

1. What European discovered the Mississippi? Florida':^ 
The St. Lawrence? The Hudson? What discoverer laid the 
foundation for England's claim to North America? 

2. Describe the rule of A ndros— extent of government, 
purpose, acts, results. 

3. Describe briefly the settlement and early history of 
Maryland— to 1700. 

4- (1) When did the intercolonial wars (between France 
and England) begin? (1) When did they close? (2) What 
was the result as to territory? (6) Explain three ways in 
which they paved the way for American independence. 

5. Describe Burgoyne's campaign. 

6. Explain the difference between the political views of 
Hamilton and Adams. 

'7. (6) Name thiee noted abolitionists. (4) What was 
the "underground railway?" ^ 

8. What act led to the appearance of the Eepublican 
party? What was its declared attitude toward slavery in 
1860? 

9. (6) How were the states that seceded governed just 
after the war? (4) When did this method cease? 

10. Describe tlie events that led to the impeachment of 
President Johnson. 

11. Name live presidents in order, beginning just after 
Madison, and meniion one important event in the adminis- 
tration of each. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 2d, 1895, 
Omit ayiy fifteen credits. 

I. (10) Give an account of either Connecticut, Maryland, 

or Massachusetts Bay Colony, from the settle- 
ment until the period of the intercolonial wars. 

II. (5) What were the navigation acts? ^ 

III.* (5) Ab<jut what was the population of the colonies in 

177(3? 



54 STATK BOAKD KXAMINATIONS. 

IV. (5) About what was the population of England at 

that time? 

V. (10) Describe two attempts at union between the col 

onies or a group of colonies before 1700. 

Yl. (10) Describe one of the following campaigns: Bur- 
goyne's; Sherman's march to the sea; Grant's 
capture of Richmond. 

VII. (10) Describe the nullification troubles in Jackson's 

administration. 

VIII. (10) Name two earlier projects to nullifj' federal legis- 

lation. 

IX. (10) Mention in order of time ten leading events in the 

slavery struggle in our history. 

X. (5) What was the "Underground Eallroad?" (2) Name 

three leading abolitionists. (3). 

XI. (10) Name the administrations from 1832 to the present 

time, in order, with one important event of each. 
[One credit off for each error.] 

XII. (5) Name the states that seceded in the rebellion. 

[One credit off for each error.] 

XIII. (5) What was the attitude of the Republican party to- 

wards slavery m 1860? 

XIV. (5) What is Civil Service Reform? 

XV. (10) What was the leading economic question before the 

last Congress at its last session? In its first 
session? What was done in each case? 



HISTORY OF TKE UNITED STATES, Jst, J696. 

I (10) Name two Spanish, two French and one Dutch 
explorer in America, and tell wliat each discovered. 

II. (10) What degree of self-government was common to 
all the English colonies? How did this compare with other 
European colonies? 

III. (10) What motive led to the settlement of Georgia, 
Nezu Haven, Peniisylvania , Connecticut , Alassachusetts. 

IV. (10) Explain three ways in which the intercolonial 
wars prepared the way for American independence. 

V. (10) Name three of the largest cities in America in 
1770, with approximate population of each. About what was 
the whole population of the colonies. 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 55 

VI. (30) Discuss the territorial growtti of the United 
States, starting with the close of the Revolutionary War; or 
treat of tlie rise of, and changes in political parties from the 
beginning of our National History to the present time. 

VII. (10) What was the Missouri compromise? Date? 
How and where was it repealed? Name two noted "aboli- 
tionists. ' ' 

VIII. (10) Describe the opening of the Mississippi in the 
Civil War, or Grant's campaign about Richmond. 

IX. (10) Name five presidents in order, beginning just 
after John Quincy Adams, and give one event of importance 
in the administration of each. 

X. (10) Name the states that seceded (one credit off for 
each error). How were they governed just after the war? 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 2d, 1896, 

Omit any one gzcestion. 

I. a (6) Explain three important respects in which the 

settlers of Plymouth Plantation differed from 
those of Massachusetts Bay. ^b (4) When, or 
in what connection, were tliese two colonies 
united into one? 

II. (10) Describe the rule of Andros. 

HI. a (4) Name two attempts at union between the col- 
onies, or a group of colonies, before the Stamp 
Act. 

h (6) Give the story of one, of these attempts. 

IV. a (1) When did the wars in America between France 

and England begin? b (1) Name tliree of 
them in order of time, c (2) What was the 
final result as to territory? d (8) Explain 
three ways in which they prepared the way for 
American independence. 

V. a (5) What was the Kansas - Nebraska bill? b (5) 

What former legislation did it virtually' repeal? 

VI. a (5) What was the effect of the Kansas-Nebraska bill 

upon political parties? b_ (5) What was^ the 
attitude of each party toward slavery in' the 
campaign of 1860? , 

VII. a (4) Name four members of the constitutional con- 

\TBntf(in of 1787. b (6) When and where was 



66 STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 

the government under the present constitution' 
inaugurated? 

VIII (10) Who and for what noted, were John Winthrop, 

John Cabot, Vespucius, Braddock, Ohamplain? 

IX (10) Describe the nullitlcation troubles of Jackson's 

administration. 

X (10) Name two earlier instances in our history when 

something very similar occurred. 

XI (10) Describe (briefly, but covei-Thg the whole in out- 

line) either the campaigns about Ilichmond in 
our Civil War or the campaign to open the 
Mississippi. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, Jst, J897. 

1 (15) The date 1GS9 divides our colonial history into 

two convenient periods; characterize each peri- 
od (10), and show the connection between the 
date 1689 in American and in English history (5). 

.11 (10,1 Give the live other dates between 1600 and 1800 
which you think the most important for an 
American boy or girl to know,— telling also 
what event each marks? 

Ml (15) What degree of self-government was common to 
all the English colonies. (Answer specitically.) 
(10) How did tliis compare with that in other 
European colonies in tliat day? (5). 

IV (10) Name two attempts at union among the colonies, 

or a group of colonies, before the stamp act of 
1765, with the occasion and approximate date of 
each attempt. 

V (15; What territory did England possess in North 

America in 1765.' (2) What territory did the 
United States possess in 1800? (2) About what 
fraction was that of our present extent? (1) 
Treat of our acquisition of territory since 1800. 
(10). 

VI (10) Name ten presidents in order, beginning just 

after Madison, giving the political party of eacli, 
and one event in each presidency— (one credit 
off for each ferror.) 

VII (15) What is the Monroe Doctrine? (5) How did it 
' arise V (5) In what connection has it been 

used recently by our government? (5). 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 67 

VIII. (10) Explain the relation between the Missouri Com- 
promise and the Kansas-Nebraska bill; between 
the Missouri Compromise and the Dred Scott 
decision. 



UNITED STATES HISTORY, 2d, 1897. 

Ansivc?- any eight. 

I •' (8) Name four French explorers in America, telling 

what region each discovered or explored. 

b (1) Who discovered the Hudson river? 

c (1) What discovery laid the basis for England's claim 
in North America? 

II a (9.) Contrast the Plymouth Pilgrims with the early 

Massachusetts Bay Puritans as to their attitude 
towards the English church, toward the separa- 
tion of church and state, and as to the wealth 
and social position. 

b (1) When, or in connection with what event, were 
PJymoutli and Massachusetts Bay colonies united 
finally? 

III (10) Treat, in about half a page, the early history of 

either Georgia or Pennsylvania, noting briefly the 
approximate date, the leader, his purpose, char- 
acter of settlers, and success in the early years. 

IV (10) Name three of the largest cities in America in 

1776, with the approximate population of one of 
them. (4) About what was the whole popula- 
tion of the thirteen colonies at that time? (3) 
"What territory did England own in North Amer- 
ica just before the Declaration of lndependencer(3) 

V (10) Discuss the English plan for the French and In- 

dian war and its success, or discuss Burgoyne's 
campaign. 

VI (10) Mention, in order of time, live leading events in 

the slavery struggle between 1819 and 1860. 
showing briefly the bearing of each upon the 
contest. 

VII (10) When did the present Repuljjican parly first come 

into power? (1) What was its avowed attitude 
toward slavery then? (8). Wlien. alter tl)is, did 
it tirstgooul (if power? (1). 



58 STATK BOAllD EXAMINATIONS. 



VIII. (10) What is meant by "Reconstruction?" (3). Name 

the states that seceded in 1861. (7). 

IX. (10) For what particular purpose has the present 

session of congress been called? What import- 
ant treaty has been recently before our senate 
and what has been done with it? 

X. (10) Who, and for what noted, were John Marshall, 

Cotton Mather, Robert Morris, Roger Williams, 
Calhoun? 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, Jst, 1898. 
Omit any tzuo that zoill count 20 credits. 

1. (10) Describe the important political differences be- 
tween the colonies of Connecticut and Virginia. 

2. (5) What was the policy and purpose of James 11. to- 
ward the colonies? (4) What event in England led to the 
overthrow of that policy? (1). 

3- (10) Write a few lines about the rights enjoyed by 
English colonists in America, as compared by those possessed 
by the colonists of France or any other European nation. 

4- (10) Name three noted abolitionists. (6) What was 
the "underground railway." (4). 

5- (10) What was the declared attitude of the Republi- 
can party toward slavery in 1860? 

6. (10) How were the states that had seceded governed 
just after the war? (6) When did this method cease? (4). 

1. (15) Discuss one of the following topics: Sherman's 
march to the sea; the opening of the Mississippi; Grant's 
campaigns about Richmond. 

8- (10) Give the circumstances in which any five of the 
following expressions originated: 

"God has sifted a nation that he might send choice grain 

into the wilderness." 
"Let it not be grievous to you that you have but broke 

the ice for others; the honor shall be yours to the 

world's end." 
"Here once the embattled farmers stood and fired the 

shot heard round the world." 
"Don't give up the ship." 
"Forty-nine forty or tight." 
"If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, 

shoot him on the spot." 
"Government of the people, by the people, and for the 

people." 



S'J'ATE HOARD EX AJVIIN ATIONS. 



9. (10) What is the significance of each of the following 
dates, 1643, 1689, 1765, 1789, 1820. 

10. (10) Name the last live presidents, including the 
present president, with one event of importance in connection 
with the administration of each. 



HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 2d, J 898. 

1. (10) Contrast the colonies of Connecticut and Vir- 
ginia as to the control exercised by the English government. 

2. (10) Which were better treated by the mother 
country, the American colonies of England or the American 
colonies of France? Give reasons for your answer. (Six or 
seven lines.) 

3. (10) What was the purpose of James II. in sending 
Andros to New England? What event in English history 
made it possible for the colonists to get rid of Andros? 

4. (20) Discuss one of the following topics: Sherman's 
march to the sea; the opening of the Mississippi; McClellan's 
advance upon Richmond; Grant's campaigns about Rich- 
mond. 

5. (10) Who and for what noted were any five of the 
following: George Rogers Clark, Daniel Boone, John Win- 
throp, Nathaniel Bacon, Cotton Mather, La Salle. 

6. (10) Give briefly the story of the nullification trou- 
bles in Jackson's administration. 

7. (20) Explain briefly the significance of five of the 
following terms: Kansas-Nebraska bill; Hartford conven- 
tion of 1814; Reconstruction; Dred Scott Decision; "Fifty- 
four forty or fight;" carpet-baggers; copperheads. 

8. (10) Give five important dates in American history 
after 1607 and before 1830 (no two within ten years of each 
other), and tell what event each marks. 



U. S. HISTORY, 1st, J899. 

a (4) What difficulty of commerce did Columbus at- 
tempt to o'vercome by his voyage. 

b (6) By what routes is commerce now carried on be- 
tween Europe and Eastern Asia? 



60 bJATii BUAltU KXAMlNA'l'lONS. 

2 (10) Compare, in genenil, the relatiuns of the Indians 

in colonial times with the French and with the 
Englisli. Give reasons for the difference. 

3 a (-4) What two colonies retained, after the revolution. 

charters granted by the King of EnglandV 

b (4) Mention two provisions in any charter granted to 
any of the tliirteen colonies and give the colony 
and charter you select. 

c (2) How does a charter differ from a constitution. 

4 « (4) How and when did the United States come into 

possession of "The Northwest Territory?" 

b (4) What states and parts of states have been 
formed out of this territory? 

c (2) Write one provision of the "Ordinance" formed 
for the government of the Territory. 

5 a (5) In what respect does the Constitution differ from 

the Articles of Confederation? 

b (5) What two compromises are found in the Consti- 
tution? 

6 (10) Who and for what noted was "Citizen" Genet? 

John C. Calhoun? Edmund Burlce? Marcus 
Whitman? JS'athanial Hawthorne? 

7 « (9) What effect on slavery in the territory now oc- 

cupied by Kansas did the Missouri Compromise 
have? Tlie Kansas-Nebraska Act? The Dred 
Scott Decision? 

b (1) What was meant by "squatter sovereignty?" 

8 a (.3) What is meant by the Reconstruction Period? 
b (3) Why were the Ku Klux organized? 

c (4) What were the Alabama claims and how settled; 



UNITED STATES HISTORY, 2d, 1899. 

I. a (3) Divide the history of the United States since 
1492 into at least three periods— naming each 
period. 
b (2) Give date for the close of eacii period. 
c (5) Name live European nations which have owned 
territory in North America. 
<l. " (6) Mention liiree services of #ohn Smith to the 
American colonists. 



STATK BOAKD KX AM 1 N A 1 IDNS. til 

b (4) Tiive two points in which Roger Williams ditfcrcci 
from his opponents. 

III. a (4) Mention one service of George Rogers Clark to 

his country. One of Antliony Wayne. 
b (6) Mention two arguments used by the opponents of 
the ratification of the Constitution of the 
United States. 

IV. (10) Give the time of the Louisiana purchase. From 

whom bought; amount paid: why sold; bound- 
aries of the territory acquired. 

V. Give an account of the Nullification troubles. 
a (4) Causo of the trouble. 

b (4) Question at issue. 
c (2) Leader on each side. 

VI. (10) Mention the chief contribution to this country of 

Samuel F. B. Morse, Capt. John Ericsson, Eli 
Whitney, Noah Webster, Marcus Whitman. 

VII. a (5) What is the substance of the last amendment to 

the Constitution of the United States? 

b (5) Name five authors who wrote In opposition to 
slavery before llie civil war. 

VIII. a (5) What inlluences led to the rapid settlement of 

California? 

b (5) What arguments led to the building of the Union 
Pacific Railroad? 

IX. a (5) Give an outline of the condition of affairs inCuba 

at the time of the declaration of our late war 
with Spain. 
b (5) Give the main points in the treaty with Spain at 
the close of the war. 

X. (10) Name five reference books, or sets of books, in 

the United States History (not text books) and 
give period covered by each. 



UNITED STATES HISTORY, 1st, J900. 

{Auszver any three.) 

I. Discuss the settlement of either Massachusetts or 

Virginia, or Pennsylvania under the following 
heads: 
a (2) Conditions in Europe which led to settlement. 
h (2) Character of first settlers. 
c (2) Place and date of first settlement. 



62 STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 



d (2) Names of two leading men connected with early 

history. 
e (2) Form of government prevailing up, to the Kevolu- 

tion. 

a (2) What two colonies used their charters as consti- 
tutions after the Kevolution? 

b (2) Give an account of the capture of Hessians at 
Trenton. 

c- (2) For what is George Eogers Clark famous? 
d (2) Givea brief account of the light at King's moun- 
tain. 

e (2) What nation obtained the Floridas at the treaty 
of Paris in 1783? 

a (2) Explain one condition which made it difficult to 
frame a constitution to suit all the states. 

b (2) Name two colonies which most decidedly opposed 

the adoption of the constitution. 
c (2) What did Massachusetts and New Yorli do with 

their unoccupied land in the west? 

d (2) Name the two most populous colonies at the close 
of the Eevolution. 

e (2) State one provision of the Ordinance of 1787. 

a (2) What is the origin of the expression, "Millions 
for defense, nut one cent for tribute?" 

b (2) What political party passed the "Alien and Se- 
dition Law?" 
c (2) What was the "impressing of sailors" by England 

and i'rance before the war of 1812? 
d (2) State the Missouii Compromise. 
e (2) What did the Republican party platform of 1860 

declare in regard to slavery? 
a (2) Name a standard work (not text-book) on each of 
the following topics: 
Early settlements west of the Alleghanies. 
The period from 1783-1789. 
b (2) What was meant by a "Carpet Bagger?" 

c (2) When was Minnesota made a state? Who was its 

first governor? 
d (2) What presidents have died in office? 
'e (2) What declaration respecting the government of 

Cuba did congress make at the beginning of the 

war w ilh Soain? 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 6S 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, 2nd, 1900. 

Ansiver any four . 

I. a (5) Arrange the following colonies in order of date of 
settlements, beginning with the first settled: 
New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Mary- 
land, Connecticut. 

* (5) Name, in order of possession, the owners of the 

soil of the present state of Florida from its set" 
tlement to the present time. 

a. (10) Namefi)') minent colonial governors, and tell. 
(1) to'iab colony each belonged, (2) the date or 
each, and (3) write a sentence or two descriptive 
of the character of each. 

3. a- (6) Give terms of the treaty closing the French and 

Indian war, as far as tliey affected the territorial 
rights in the New World. 

* (5) Give an account of the City of Philadelphia dur- 

ing the Revolutionary War. 

4. a (5) What is meant by the "Monroe Doctrine?" 

b (5) Give two instances when the ambitions or neces- 
sities of Napoleon Bonaparte had great influ- 
ence on the fortunes of our country. 

5. a (2) What service to his country did John Qulncj^ 

Adams give, after his term of ofQce as president! 
had expired? 

b (8) Give four important facts in connection with the 
history of slavery in th6 United States and givQ 
the date of each. 

6. (10) Discuss the Mexican War under the following 

heads: (1) Cause; (2) Commanding General on 
American side; (3) Two Important Battles with 
dates; Result in Acquisition of Territory by the 
United States. 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 



GEOGRAPHY, Jst J89I. 

(2) What is the most hnpoitant shipping port of the 
United States? 

What waters connect Lake Huron and Lake Erie? 
What are the chief exports of the United States? 
Which are the three largest lakes in Minnesota? 
What states are separated by the Ohio river? 
What separates Arabia from Africa? 
What three large islands are crossed by the equa- 
tor. 

What mountains separate France from Spain? 
Give the latitude of St. Paul. 
Give the boundaries of Nebraska. 
What country of Europe is a republic? 
What is the capital of Brazil? 
What countries of South America have no sea 
coast? 

What city is the shipping port of Minnesota and 
where is it situated? 
What is the largest city in the world? 
Where are the Dardanelles and what do they con- 
nect? 

What is meant by political boundary'^ 
Wiiat states lie on the Atlantic Coast? 
What waters lie between the British Isles and the 
mainland of Europe? 

Name the three largest cities in Minnesota? 
How many states are there in the Union? 
How did Alaska become a part of the United 
States? 
23. (2) What empire of Asia is composed entirely of 
islands? 

Name the three principal rivers of Africa. 

Give tlic boundaries of Spain. 

What large island lies S. E. of Africa and what is 
its capital? 



2. 


(2) 


3. 


(4) 


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5. 


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6, 


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7 


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(2) 


9 


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10. 


(4) 


1 . 


(2) 


12. 


(2) 


13. 


(2) 


14. 


(2) 


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(2) 


16. 


(2) 


17. 


(2) 


18. 


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19. 


(3) 


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^P 


2f. 


(2) 


22. 


(2) 



24. 


(3) 


25. 


(3) 


26. 


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?TATE ROAHD EXAMINATIONS. 



65 



Between what degrees of longitude does the 

United States lie? 
Locate the state institutions of Minnesota, nor- 
mal schools, prisons, asylums, etc. 
Name in order of size the four largest cities of the 

United States. 
Where is the Suez canal, and what waters does it 

connect? 
Between what degrees of latitude does Minnesota 

lie? 
On which side of the Mississippi river is the laiger 

part of the United States? 
Which is the most important division of South 

America? 
Give the latitude and longitude of Washington 

City. 
What river is the outlet of the "Great Lakes?" 
What is an Archipelago"? 
Which one of the States furnishes the bulk of the 

petroleum? 
What river of the woild discharges most waters 

into the ocean? 
What country in the Western hemisphere has the 

same latitude as Sahara? 
Which of the two oceans Atlantic and Pacific 

has most islands? 



27. 


(2) 


28. 


H) 


29. 


(■1) 


30. 


(2) 


31 


(2) 


32. 


(2) 


33' 


(2) 


34' 


(3) 


35- 
36. 
37. 


(2) 
(2) 
(2) 


38. 


(2) 


39. 


(2) 



.(2)4' 



I. 


(2) 


2. 


(2) 


3- 


(4) 


4. 


(2) 


5. 


(3) 


6. 


(3) 


7. 


(2) 


8. 


(2) 


9. 


(2) 


10. 


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II. 


(3) 



GEOGRAPHY, 2d, I89J. 

What countries form the Scandinavian penins'ula? 

Which is the most progressive country of Asia? 

Name the two largest rivers in each Grand Divi- 
sion. 

Between what bodies of water does Italy lie? 

Name the states that border on thegulf of Mexico? 

What are the three largest branches of the Missis- 
sippi river? 

Name three large cities on the Atlantic coast of 
United States. 

How is Alaska governed? 

Which extends farthest north, Africa or South 
America? 

What grand division has most rivers? 

Where is the Well and canal and for what purpose 
was it constructed? '' 



66 STATE aOARU KXAMIK ATIOK*. 



To what country does the Isthmus of Panama 
belong? 

Name the two most important vegetable, and also 
mineral products of Minnesota. 

What mountains extend from the Caspian to the 
Black sea? 

How does Europe compare with Asia as to size and 
population? 

What is the capital of France, and where is it 
situated? 

Where is Mozambique channel, and of what water 
is it a part? 

Name three important cities in South America 
and tell in what political divisions they are? 

What towns in Minnesota are on or very near the 

44th parallel of latitude*^ 
What river flows into Lake Superior at Duluth? 
Where does the great bulk of the cotton crop of 

the United States go? 
What are the chief imports of the United States? 
What country has the most and longest railroads. 
Name the political divisions of Soutli America. 
Name the largest state in the United States, also 

the one that has the least area. 
Which has the greatest area, Minnesota or the 

six "New England States." 
What is the difference between foreign and domes- 
tic commerce? 
What waters separate Europe and Africa? 
Name the states that lie on the east bank of the 

jSOssissippi river. 
Give the width of the torrid and temperate zones 

(in degrees.) 
Through what waters would a vessel pass in going 

from Liverpool to Duluth? 
How do you tell whether a place is in north or 

south latitude? 
What is the principal use of rivers? 
What grand divisions are crossed by the Tropic of 

Cancer. 
What is the latitude of Duluth? 
Give the latitude and longitude of Philadelphia. 
Name the capitals of the New England states. 



12. 


(2) 


«3. 


(3) 


M- 


(2) 


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(2) 


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(2) 


>7. 


(2) 


i8. 


(3) 


19. 


(3) 


30. 


(2) 


31. 


(2) 


22. 


(4) 


23- 


(2) 


24. 


(4) 


25. 


(2) 


26. 


(2) 


27. 


(2) 


28. 


(2) 


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(4) 


\\o. 


(3) 


31. 


(4) 


32. 


(2) 


33- 


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34- 


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35. 


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36. 


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STATE BOARD EXAMINATION'S. 67 

38. (3) What separates the state of New York from Cana- 

da? I 

39. (4) Give the boundaries of Oregon. j 

40. (2) Explain the difference between a monarchy and a 

republic. 



4. 


(6) 


5. 


0) 


6. 


(6) 


7- 


(7) 


8. 


(6) 



II. 


(6) 


12. 


a) 


13- 


(8) 


14. 


(6) 


ts- 


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I. 


(7) 


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3. 


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GEOGRAPHY, 1st, 1892, ' 

(6) What is a watershed? What watershed have vou 

near your home? What is tlie main watershed 

of N. A. What river basins does it help to form? 
(G) Sketch the Mississippi river basin. Mark the possi- 

tion of the states that lie wholly, or In part, in 

this basin. 

(6) Name and locate six of the most important cities 

of this basin, telling for what each is dis- 
tinguished. 

What is tlie usual route of vessels sailing from U. S. 
ports to Europe? Why? 

Compare Vancou vers Island and Newfoundland in 
geographic position, climates and products, giv- 
ing reasons for differences noted. 

Reason for fogs "off the banks" of Newfoundland. 

What is tlie work of the U. S. Signal Service? 

Where are the coal mining districts of the U. S? 
Iron?jPetroleum? < 

(9) Draw outline map of N. A. Mark the cotton pro- 
ducing section, also tlie wheat, corn and forest 
regions. 

(7) What are ocean currents? Describe the general 

currents of the Atlantic ocean. If you prefer, 

answer this question by drawing. 
Describe our National Park. : 

What and where is the Congo Free State? •• 

Describe the formation of dew, of frost. 
What countries make up Great Britain? 
Which is the most progressive country of Asia? 

Why do you think so? 



GEOGRAPHY, 2d, 1892. 

Sketch a map of Minnesota locating principal 

cities and railroads. 
Why is it cold in Minnesota in January and hot 

in July? 
In traveling 60 degrees west from St. Paul what 

part of the way around the earth do you go? 
Explain. 



<J8 STATE 1M>AHD EXAMINATIONS. 

4. (3) One man travels 60 degrees west from Mosco^, 

another at the same rate travels 60 degrees wealp 
of New Orleans, which would complete his 
journey in shortest time? 
(3) Why? 

5. (5) Name some natural conditions favorable to the 

growth of great cities. 
(S) Name cities in illustration. 

6. (9) Compare the Rocky mountain system with the 

Appalachian, as to size and productions. 

7. (6) Sketch the Mississippi river system. Locate 

principal cities belonging. 

8. (6) Trace t he route of a cargo of wheat from Duluth 

to Liverpool. 

9. (3) What is a capital city? 

(5) Name and locate live in the United States, five in 
Europe and five in Asia. 

10. (9) Compare Lake Superior with the Atlantic ocean, 

noting as many dillerences as you can. 

11. (8) Name states or countries immediately east of the 

following: Tennessee, Connecticut, Arkansas, 
Kansas, France, Wales. 

12. (3) What is the width in degrees of the torrid zone. 
(3) Why? 

(3) What is the width in degrees of the temperate 
zones. (3) Why? 
<3' (9) By what two routes may a cargo of tea be brought 
from Canton to St. Paul? Trace the routes in 
detail. 
Supplementary questions which may be substituted for 
any of the above according to credits. 

About what day in the year is the sun the most 

nearly overhead? 
How far south must you go to see it exactly over- 
head ";' 
Sketch South America and note in proper places 

the equator and the chief productions. 
What do you know^ about "whalebacks?" 
Wliat is "central time?" "mountain time?" 



1. 


(3) 




(3) 


2. 


(8) 


3. 

4- 


(4) 
(5) 



GEOG><APHY, Ut, 1893. 

1. Draw a nuip of North America and note by name in 
the map the location of the principal agricultural products. 

2. Name in order all the states having salt water coast 
beginning with Maine. 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 69 

3' Explain the causes of the difference in the climate of 
the Province of Quebec and Ireland. 

4. Describe an imaginary trip of a merchantman from 
London to Calcutta and return. Tell what cargoes would be 
carried each way. 

5. Explain why the climate in some parts of the earth is 
cold and in other parts hot. Examples. Way in some dry 
and in others moist? Examples. 

6. Draw a map of a river with branches flowing into a 
lake which has an island, a bay, a straight and an outlet. 
Locate "A" at the source of th-j river, "B" at the outlet of 
the lake, "C" at the confluence of streams and on the left 
bank of the river, "D" at the bay, "E" at the mouth Of the 
river. 

7. Indicate the route of a "whale back" loaded with 
wheat from Duluth to Liverpool, giving names of important 
cities, island, countries and waters on the route. 

8. Kame five countries of Europe and their capitals. 

9. By what route may a traveler go from New York to 
San Francisco? 

10. I^ame in order from the south all the states border- 
ing on the Mississippi river and give the capital of each. 



GEOGRAPHY, 2d, 1893. 

1. (8) Tell what the Mississippi river system has done 
for commerce and industries in tht West. 

2. (10) Draw township, locating the school sections in 
it. Why are they so called? (5) Draw a small lake in sec- 
tion 15, with a tributary rising in section land an outlet from 
west side of the lake running through sections 17, 28 and N . 
W. quarter of section 31. 

3- (2) About how long does it take a steamer to sail 
from ISTew York to Liverpool? (3) Does it return by the 
same route? (.5) Why? 

4. (3) What is the approximate length of a meridian in 
miles? (3) Its length in degrees? (3) From the meridian 
of Greenwich what is about the longitude of New York? 

5. (8) What merchandise and what classes of pa.ssenger 
traflflc pass between the United States and Europe? 

0. (12) Name, locate and tell what gives importance to 
cities as follows: Five in United States; three in Europe; one 
each in South America, Africa and Asia. 

7. (10) Sketch the Nile and its sources. Sketch the 
Ohio river, noting cities on its banks and states bounded by 
it. 

8. (4) If you were standing at the North Pole, where 



70 STATE ROAllD EXA51IN ATION8. 

would you see the sun at this time of the year? (4) When 
would it disappear from your view? 

9. (10) Tell what the great mineral products of the 
United States are and where they are found. 

10. (10) Sketch Minnesota with chief cities and most 
important railroads. 

GEOGRAPHY, 1st, 1894. 

{/o credits each.) 

1. Name ten large cities, and tell briefly what the loca- 
tion of each has to do with its prosperity. 

2. Name two or more cities or countries the climate of 
which I^ affected by ocean currents. Tell how. 

3. Describe parts of continents which are or have been 
made fertile by mountain ranges and rivers. 

4. Tell what the productions of these regions are, and 
how and where they are consumed. 

5. In what way are the following useful to mankind? 
(1) Elvers. (2) Gulfs and bays. (3) Mountain ranges. 
Give examples of each. 

' 6. Describe the several routes of travel and trade from 
New York to Canton. 

7. Describe location, climate and importance to the 
United States of Hawaii. 

8. Sketch a map of the Great Lakes and locate all prin- 
cipal cities on their coast. 

9. Describe the route of a cargo from Duluth to Liver- 
pool. What may the vessel protitably carry each way? 

10. Name productions of the following classes in Minne- 
sota, and tell in what parts of the state they are produced; 
(1) Things that grow. (2) Things that are mined. (3) 
Things that are made. 

GEOGRAPH 2d 1894. 

1. (12) Note the favorable commercial conditions in the 
locations of the following cities: New York, New Orleans, 
Chicago, St. Paul, St. Louis, Buffalo. 

2. (9) What agricultural advantages have the following 
parts of our country, New England, Mississippi Valley, Pacilic 
slope? 

3' (9) How is climate determined bv latitude? How by 
elevation? How by air currents? Illustrate. 

4^ (10) Note convenient routes of travel from the east 
to the Pacific coast. From 1 ..ris to Eome. 

' 5« (10) Describe the Atlantic const and explain its in- 
fluence upon our civilization or commc ce. 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 7^ 

" ■ ■'■'• V i ^ ' -T ,,B..« . , T ,. <j j 

6. (10) Which is the most important to the student in 
his study of geography, capitals of states, ol* large cltleS? Glvd 
reasons and illustrate. 

7. (10) What is the southern limit of the torrid zone? 
What fixek it there? 

8. (10) Name five most Important countries of Europe 
In order. Name their most important seapoi'ts. 

p. (10) With what countries have We important com* 
mercial relations? Name our important articles of export, 

lo. (10) Describe the general plan and advantages o{ 
the Nicaragua Canal. 

GEOGRAPHY, 1st, J895. 

I. Name countries of Asm in order of their Importance. 
a. Sketch the Mississippi basin showing: 

(a) The Mississippi an^ its chief tributaries. 
it (b) The importaiit cities. 

(<:) The area in which important vegetable or 
mineral productions ar4 found. 

3. Name in order of size the ten largest cities of Amer- 
ica and give appr6::^imate population of largest five. 

4. Tell what conditions are favorable to the growtli of a 
large city and illustrate by examples showing whati has 
caused their prosperity. 

5- Tell what you can of the commerce of this country 
with Liverpool and its profit to us in Minnesota. 

6. Tell the difference between a metropolis and ft Capi- 
tal. Give five examples. 

7. Name great cities of Europe that are located on 
rivers and tell why such locations have made thetti prosper- 
ous. 

8. Define latitude and longitude. Give latitude of Arctic 
circle, North Pole, St. Paul. 

9. Tlxplain our system of "eastern time," "central time," 
etc. Tell what its advantages are. 

10. Give an account of the soil, climate, methods of 
farming and people of Central Russia. 



GEOGRAPHY, 2d, 1895. 

1. Draw a circle of a hemisphere, and locate and mark 
the latitude of the circled that bound the five zones. 

2. When it is winter in Minnesota, what is the season in 
the Argentine Republic? Explain the difference. 

3- Name important conditions that determine climate. 
Name parts of the world that illustrate these conditions. <^ 



72 STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 

4. Locate either the Welland Canal or the Suez Canal, 
and explain its use. 

5. Where are great cities generally located? Why? Give 
ten examples in illustration. 

6. Has every state a capital? Why? Name ten of the 
United States and tive countries of Europe, giving capitals 
and their locations. 

7. Locate the following by countries or zones: Tea, spruce, 
banana, orange, wheat, tobacco, cotton, India rubber, p.;a- 
huts, potatoes. 

8. Name five principal exports of the Pacitic coast of the 
United States. 

9. Draw- tlie Mississippi and the Minnesota rivers with- 
in the boundaries of this state, and locate the principal 
towns of Minnesota that are upon their banks. 

10. Name principal 'mountain ranges of Europe, and 
tell what countries they stparate. 



GEOGRAPHY, Jst, J896. 

I. Sketch a half page map of Minnesota and on this 
map mal'k otf your home county printing in the names of its 
bounflclTies by counties or otherwise. 

a. Name two library books or books of reference which 
yout class has read or consulted for geographical information. 

3- Explain with diagram w-hy we are having colder 
weather than during last June. [Time supposed to be Feb- 
ruary.] 

4. The forty-tifth parallel of north latitude, i. e. of St.. 
Paul, passes through— 

(a) "What states of the Union besides Minnesota? 

(b) "What countries of the old world? 

5. Show the similarity in the physical structure of North 
America and South America. 

6. Name the metropolis and chief articles of export for 
each COUlitry bordering on Switzerland. 

9- t)©$Crlbe a route by water from Constantinople to St 
Louis. 

8. Discuss the commercial relations of the United States 
and JapaH) tpuching on articles of exchange, amount of busi- 
ness, se^pOlrtS, I'allroads, interesting effects on the Japanese, 
etc. 

9- Give a brief note on ten of the following: Tuileries, 
Tiber, Sheffield, seal, salmon. Great Salt Lake, canyon, Czar, 
De Lesseps, iceberg, mahogany, Mt. Blanc, steppes, llama. 

10. Name the conditions favorable to luxuriant vegetable 
growth, and name corresponding localities in which one con- 
oitlon is conspicuously wanting though the others are present. 



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II. Name the raos|i'lmportant vegetable product for each 
state >X)rdering on the east bank of the Mississippi river. 

13. Name one or morck ecu n tries noted for the production 
of tea, wheat, coffee, sllI^TSWJOl, tobacco, wine, raisins, olive 
oil, watches. 

13' Name ten points of interest which an American in 
London would naturally visit. 

14- Sketch a map of Africa, locating in a general way 
the possessions of European powers. 

15. What agencies are changing the surface features -ot 
the earth? Give Illustrations from your own locality. 

i6. Name five mountain ranges wliich serve as political 
boundaries and state what countries are separated by each. 



GEOGRAPHY, 2d, 1856. 

I. (10) What states border on Tennessee? 

3. (10) List the following cities in order of nearness to 
the north pole: Pekin, Venice, Chicago, San Francisco. Sitka, 
St. Petersburg, Cairo (Egypt), Mexico, Ottawa, Washington. 

3- (10) What five rivers flow northward through Ger- 
many? 

4. (10) Name five important food exports and five im- 
portant food imports of the United States. 

* 5. a (5) Explain why the Nile is called "The Father of 
Egypt." b (5) What is the cause of the Desert of Sahara? 

6. a (5) Give the conditions necessary to the formation 
■of a delta. 

b (5) Name five rivers having important deltai!. 

7. (10) Name five important canals of the world and 
give the reason for the construction of eaclr. 

8. a (3) What three European nations are the most 
.active in colonizing Africa? 

b (3) Give approximately the location of the territory of 

each of these nations in Africa. 
c (4) What nation owns each of the following: New 

Zealand? Madagascar? Philippine Islands? Java? 

9. a (5) Draw a map of the Mediterranean Sea. 
b (5) Locate on your map five important seaports. 

10. a (0) Sketch a map of the Atlantic drainage system 
of the United States; locating the prinol^l rivers. (Exclude 
the Gulf system.) 

b (4) Name the states that lie wholly in the system.. 

II. (10) Name an Important fact connected with each of 
the following: Cuba, Boers, Florida, orange culture, the 
«ugar-beet. .irrigation, oyster beds, linseed oil, rubber, the 
^ostrich, drift. 

la. (10) Where and for what noted are the folio .ving : 



STAIK 15UAKD EXAMINATIONS. 



Brussels, Havana, Sydney, Belfast, Calcutta, Cheyenne, Port 
Said, Westminster Abbey, The Kremlin, Java? 

M. (10) Name ten books (not text-books) which you have 
used this year in the preparation of lessons in geography. 

14. a (4) What are fossils and where are they found? 
b (3) Explain the falling of the barometric column at 

the approach of a storm. 
e (3) Explain why some rocks are stratified and some 
are not. 



GEOGRAPHY, 1st, J897. 
I. a (6) Mention three important wheat producing areas 
of the world outside of North America. 

b (2) Where is the world's best market for wheat? 

e (2) Considering ease of reaching this market and cost 
of labor in raising wheat, which wheat produc- 
ing area gives the greatest advantage to the 
farmer? 
a. (10) Mention ten articles which your gi'ocer or dry goods 
merchant probably gets from foreign countries 
and tell from which country each article may 
come. 
3- a (4) In what two of her island possessions are the in- 
habitants in rebellion against Spain? 

b (2) In which of these rebellions is the United States 
the more interested? Why? 

c (2) Are the Hawaiian Islands nearer to the United 
States or to Japan? 

d (2) Why are these islands of interest to the United 
States? 

4. (10) Sketch an outline of the group of states border- 

ing on the Ohio river, locating on your map the 
metropolis of each state. 

5. (10) Sketch a map of the British Isles, locating on 

your map London, Glasgow, Belfast, Liver- 
pool and Dublin, 

6. CO) Locate the following and tell for what noted: 

Oxford, Dresden, Salt Lake City, New Orleans, 
Havana, Moscow, The Alhambra, The Pampas, 
The Soudan, Armenia. 

7» (10) Name three regions of great rainfall and. two of 
extreme dryness, giving an Important reason 
for the characteristic climate of each locality. 

8. a (4) Name the two principal orange growing regions 
of the United States. 
b (3) Describe the orange tree, 
c (3) Describe orange culture. ' 



STATE BOARD KXAMINATIONS. 75 

p. (10) Name and describe briefly ten objects of Interest 

in some world's large city you may choose. 
<o. a (6) Name three important cotton growing regions of 
the world. 
b (4) Describe the cotton plant and its culture. 

II. a (6) What are the causes of ocean currents? 

b (4) Give two instances of the effect of ocean currents 
on climate. 

• 2. a (6) Name the- principal iron producing regions of the 
United States. 
b (1) What is Iron ore? 

c (1) What is pig iron? i 

d (2) How is iron ore changed to pig iron? " < 



GEOGRAPHY, 2d, J897. 

1. a (4) Where is the home of the fur-bearing seal? 
b (3) Describe the animal. 

c (3) How are the skins prepared for market? 

2. a (3) How does the captain of a ship out of sight of land 

determine how many miles he goes in a day? 
b (3) How long does it take an average passenger steamer 

to go from New York to Liverpool? 
c (4) 'What would a freight steamer be likely to take as 

cargo from New York and what bring back from 

Liverpool? 
.3. a (6) Name three kinds of wood extensively used in 

Minnesota for building or manufacturing and 

tell for what particular purpose each kind is 

used. 
b (4) Name two kind of shade trees best fitted to plant 

about your home and give reasons for your 

choice. 

4. (10) Draw a map of the north shore of the Mediter- 

ranean Sea and name in order the countries 
bordering on tliis sea, beginning ^t tlie east. 

5, a (5) What conditions make It possible for high water 

in the lower Mississippi to do great damage? 
b (5) Name and locate five large cities In the United 
States whose importance 16 due largely to favor- 
ing water routes. 

-6. n (5) What natural conditions make It probable that 
there will be a great city at the head of Lake 
Superior? 
b (5) Name in order the divisions of water which a 
steamer would pass through in going from Du- 
lut h to the oceaii. 



'6 STATE bOAKD EXAMINATIONS. 



lO. 



(10) What, where, and for what noted are the follow- 
ing: Mecca, monsoons, Oxford, Corsica, steppe 

(10) Name live great European seaports and tell what 
products ships take from eacTi. 

(10) Sketch a map of the British Isles, locatins on 
your map Edinburgh, Manchest^rf'The ffi o? 
U ight, Belfast and Glasgow. 

(5) game live principal productions of Brazil. 
^ (J) iS ame tjiree articles of commerce which are ob- 

tamed from the sap of tr6es. 
e (2) Two which are obtained from the bark of trees. 

''• « (4) Locate the four most important lumber-bcarinc 
regions ofthe United States "ei ucanng 

b {6) In what countTy is the greatest amount of beet 
sugar produ(!ed? 

c (3) In what countries is the greatest amount of cane 
sugar produced"? 

'^* ^'have'airlcteS-^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ transportation 

« (4) The fruit growing industry of the southern states 

Of this country. 
* (3) The manufactures of England. 
c (3) The wheat growing areas of tlie United States. 

GEOGRAPHY, Jst, J898. 
+, +1*' (1^)^ Sketch a map of coast line from New York Pltv 
to the mouth of the Orinoco river, locating on yoTir map New 
Orleans, Peninsula of Yucatan. Lake Nicaragua Cub-i and 
the proposed Panama canal. (10 for map ani [each lStiJn.1 
4tc,.^\ (15) Sketch a map of the Mississippi and three of 
Kan as'^^ftf'plt^^^^^^ ^^^^^ "^^^^^ Blac^ Hills 

and^relchfcca'^ion!)"'^' '""^^•'^' ^"^ "*^^^"'^- ^^' '^' ^^^P 

Chici^o^to th??«Mfl^>°"^ ''} the transcontinental routes from 

i^nicago to the Pacific coast, and name two cities on the route. 

4- (10) Name two places in Minnesota which furnish 

hlKtnHr.i^'^LJ;'^^'''^^®.'"^^ ^^^^ 0"^ important descriptive or 
njstorloal statement concerning each of the following-- ^\n< 
aow, Liverpool, Athens, Leipzig, and Naples. ^^ ^^' " 

Is It JVnnJ? wf *?^^® ^^^ reindeer. Where is its home? What 

iU'niS?4rs^onVe^r^ein1eS.^^^ ''"^^^°" ''''^ ^^-^^ ^'^-^ 

8- (10) Locate a region in each of the following which. 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 77 

has been settled because of its mineral wealth and name the 
mineral obtained in each place: North America, South 
America, Africa, Australia, Europe. 

9. (10) Name five foreign countries from which immi- 
grants have come to this country and tell where, in the 
United States, lar^e numbers of each class are found. 

10. (10) What is the source of rubber and where is it 
most extensively produced? Silk? Pearls? Opium? Pepper? 



GEOGRAPHY, 2d, 1898. 
Answer the first or second and any other five. 

1. (10) Sketch a map showing the cotton-growing sec- 
tion of the United State; and locate on the map the states 
comprised in this section. 

2. a (5) Sketch a map of the British Isles. 

b (5) Locate on yoiu- map five important cities. 

3. (10) Write two not^.^ one historical and the othii 
descriptive, on one of the foiiowing: Westminster AblK.v. 
Boston, The Rhine, The Nile. 

4. Compare corn and wheat. 

a (2) Selling price in Minnesota per bu.; yield per acre 

in Minnesota. 
b (2) Time for plant to m.ature. 
c (2) Methods of cultivation. 
d (2) Use. 
e (2) Northern limit of growth. 

5. Of what special use to the animal itself Is the tail .1 
the beaver? The hump of the camel? The "wljalelxuH 
the whale? The eye of the cat? The "air bag" of the ...-.: (•' 

6. a (4) Name and locate two cities of the United Stai . 

wliich have a population of about 100,000 (ji 

more and which do not dcpen'd on water tian- 

portation for their commerce. 
6(4) Draw a picture of a lock in a canal and explain 

by the help of your drawing the way in v\iiirh 

vessels pass the lock. 
e (2) Name and locat ' two large cities which ha.> i 

great water power, 

7. In a Minnesota fruit store in April are found ba- 
nanas, lemons, oranges, strawberries, dates, tigs, apples, co- 
coanuts, walnuts and ahnonds. 

(10) In what region is „ach variety extensively grown? 

8. a (5) Mention 5 im!)oitant respects in which a savage 

differs from a civiii/cd man. 
b (2) iVh:it is meant b a "tribe?" 
c (2) Wlial is m<ani by a "coiony'r"' 
d (1) Which is the mo.>t numerous race of men? 



78 STATE BOARD EX A.Vi I N AlloNS. 



Q. (10) Where and what are five of the following: Chalk 
cliffs? pjatbogs? dykes? lochs? coastal plains? fiords? volcanio 
islands? monsoons? 

lo. a (2) What is meant by a rich soil? 

b (4) Give two ways in which nch soils have been 

formed. 
c (4) Nanv^ two kinds of weather which help rich 
soils to produce good crops and locate regions 
and crops to illustrate. 



GEOGRAPHY 1st, J 899. 

(10) Sketch a map of Russia in Europe locating on 
your map five surrounding bodies of water, 
three cities and two rivei'S 
(IQ) Name the principal agricultural section of the 
United States. Where is fishing most extensive- 
ly carried on? Herding? IVIining? Lumbering? 
(5) Name two great rainless regions of the world. 
(5) Give the causes of the lack of rain for each region. 
(10) Locate two of the world's great canals and tell 

wliy each of the canals is useful. 
(5) Make a list of five valuable forest tree-products 

other than lumber. 
(5) Tell where each of these products is found. 
; (5) Locate five islands or groups of islands which are 
of importance to commerce as coaling stations 
or as the location of forts for the protection of 
commerce. 
(5) Tell to what nation each group belongs. 

' (3) Draw^ an outline map of Minnesota. 

(7) Locate on this map the largest Hve^cities and the 

Mississippi and Slinnesota rivers. 
; (2) During 1898, were the exports of the United States 

larger than the imports? 
' (8) Mention four of our leading exports and four of 

our leading imports. 



GEOGRAPHY, 2d, J899. 

1. (10) Sketch a map of the states bordering on the Gulf 

of Mexico and locate on your map Galvtston, 
New Orleans, Mobile, Eed Eiver, and Tampa 
Bay. 

2. a (3) What part of the United States is in the same 

latitude as Germany.' * 



lUJAlCU EX A.MlXATlUNS. 79 



b (2) Compare GenivMiy niLli Texas as to area. 
c (5) Name two mosi important mineral and three most> 
important vegetable productions of Germany? 

3. ci (5) Wlicre arc tli? mos;- extensive unproductivo 

regions of tlie United States'? 
b (5) Wliat regions of the United States yield anthrac- 
ite coal, petroleum, copper, iron, marble? 

4. (10) Name five articles of commerce used in Minnesota 

and produced in the tropics. Tell where each 
article is produced. 
5' (10) Sketcli an outline map of South America and 
locate on it five of tlie largest rivers and live of 
the most important cities. 

6. (10) Write a sentence descriptive of each of five of the 

following and tell where each of the five cliosen 
is found: steppes, llanos, tundra, delta, flood 
plain, glacier, geyser. 

7. (10) Outline a map which shall contain Manila, Mel- 

bourne, Yokoham ' and San Francisco. 

8. Name two regions in which the rainfall is very abund- 

ant and give the reasons for the excessive 
moisture. 



GEOGRAPHY, Jst, J900. 

1. (10) Draw a map to include an outline of Florida, 

Cuba and Puerto Rico. Locate on your map 
Havana and the Tropic of Cancer. 

Note — Draw the map so that a straight line from Cuba's most easterly point 
to its most westerly point will be equal to this line. 

and the other parts of the map on the same scale. 

2. (10) Draw a map of Minnes^>ta making Its southern 

boundary four Inches lo:)g and the other parts 
on the same scale. Locate on your map the 
iron mining region of Minnesota, and the Min- 
nesota, Rtd, St. Croix and Mississippi rivers. 

3. a (4) Name four very important products of Minnesota.. 
b (()) Name the principal markets for three of these 

products and tell how the products selected are 
carried tc these m.arkets. 

4. a (5) Locate five of the most important cities of Eu- 

rope. (Do not select capital cities.) 
b (.5) Tell for w hat each city is noted. 

5. a (5) Sketch a map of Africa, making its greatest width 

three-fourths of the width of the paper on 
which you write and other parts on the same 
scale. 



80 STATE nOARD KX \MINATI0NT5. 



b (5) Locate on .your map the region in which British 
and Boer war occurred. Locate the Nile, the 
Congo and the Zambezi rivers. Locate the 
Tropic of Cancer. 
Discuss either silk, cotton, coal, kerosene, quinine, 
or ivory under the following heads: 

a (2) Principal regions of production. 

b (2) Principal markets. 

c (2) Methods of production, or cultivation, or manu- 
facture. 

d (2) Transportation routes. 

e (2) Uses. 



GEOGRAPHY. 2d, 190(k 
;■ ' A/:s7C'er a?iy four. 

I. (10) Name live leading occupations of men and also a 
portion of the earth's surface where each occu- 
pation is carried on extensively. 

2. a (5) Sketch an outline map of the United States (omit- 

ting inlands). (Make the width of your map 
about e(iual to the width of your paper ) 
b (5) Locate on your map the largest five cities of the 
United States, naming the cities. 

3. (10) What and when* arc tlie following: the Bad Lands, 

the (ireater Antilles, the Key to the Mediter- 
ranean, Monsoons, Westminster Abey? 

4. a (5) Sketch an outline map of the British Isles (omit- 

ting the smaller islands), Make the distance 
from London to Edinburgh about four inches 
and other distances in proportion.) 
b (5) Locate and name on your map live bodies of water 
around the Jslands!^ 

S' (10) Tell where a buyer direct from the producer (man- 
ufacturer, grower, miner, collector, etc,) might 
go to get live of the following in large quanti- 
, ties: peaches, iron, ore, knives, silk cloth, linen, 
carpets, ivory, olives, coffee, platinum. (Please 

' give rather exact information, so that a man, 

taking your statement as a guide, may purchase 
his ticket to a place near to his merchandise.) 

6. a (5) Sketch a map (six in. by four) of the Philippine 
Islands. 
* (5) Give live important products of the Philippines. 
Or— 

f>. (10) Drow a map to show how much a canal across the 
Isthmus of Panama would shorten the westerly 
steamer-route from New York to Manila. 



STATK HOAKD KX A MI NATIONS. 81 

UNITED STATES HISTORY, 1st, J 90 1. 
.hisiuer aiiy/our. 

I. a (4) Who were the patroons and state two privileges 
granted themV 
b (6) What four colonies united in 1G43? What was the 
purpose of the union, and how were the affairs 
of the united colonies to be managed? 

2. a (9) Give three requirements of Navigation Acts 

passed by England to regulate the trade of the 
colonies. 
b (1) Which colony was the most seriously affected by 
the Navigation Acts? 

3. (10) Give an account of the capture Of Burgoyne, and 

state the results of this victory. 

4. (10) Give carefully the boundaries of t lie United States 

as settled by treaty at the close of the Eevolu- 
tionary War. 

5. (10) Name and give an account of two important 

events which took place during Jefferson's ad- 
ministration. 

6. a (5) What is meant by the Monroe Doctrine? 
b (o) What was the Missouri Compromise? 

7. (10) Give an account of the transactions leading up to 

the acquisition of Oregon, with its present 
northern boundary. What part did Whitman 
have in them? 

8. rt (5) Give a brief account of the capture of Vicksburg. 

* (5) Give a brief account of the fight between the 
Monitor and the Merrimac. 



U. S. HISTORY, 2d, I90I. 

AnsTXfcr any four. 

\. a (3) About what was the Indian population of North 
America in 1500? 

b (15) How did the French, tlie English and the Span- 
iards differ in their treatment of the Indians? 

c (7) For what noted are the following: "King Philip," 
Pontiac, Tecumseli? 

a. (25) Connect an important event in American history 
with each of the following English rulers; Henry 
VII.; Elizabeth; James I.; Charles I.; Crom- 
well; Charles II.; James II. 



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3. (25) Compare the physical conditions of New England 

with those of the Southern colonies and show 
wliat effect tliese conditions had in tlie two 
sections: (a) Upon the local government; (l>) 
u\Kn\ llieir system of lahor, (c) upon their ideas 
concerning a "protective tariff." 

4. (25) Explain fully the general and hnuiediate results of 

tlic following battles: 

a Battle of Lake Cham plain (IGOO). 

l> Battle of Saratoga. 

c Battle between the Monitor and Merrimac. 

5. (25) Draw a map to illustrate the acciuisition of terri- 

torv bv the United States between the years 
1800 and 18G0. . 
Indicate on the-map: (o) The boundaries of the 
territory acquired; (/>) the date of acquisition; 
(c) from whom acquired; (</) the melliod of ac- 
quisition. 

6. a (12) Why had the slavery interests lost control in tin 

lower house? 
('' [V-i) "What was tlie relation of the Kansas-Nebraskii 
Bill and the Dred Scott Decision to the Mis- 
souri Compromise? 

7. ■( (12) "Why was the Thirteenth Amendment necessary 

to complete the work begun by the Emancipa- 
tion Proclamation? 

/' (7) "What amendment gave the negro the right to 
vote? 

<• (G) How are some of the Southern states getting 
around this amendment? 

8 (25) («) Give a prominent name in connection with 
each of tbe following inventions and enter- 
prises: (/') Give the date of the invention and 
the Iteginning of the enterprise, (c) Slmw h(>\v 
caeh has exert I'd an intluence upon the political 
or industrial history of the United States: 'J'he 
cotton gin, the sewiny machine, the Erie canal, 
the electric telegraph, the pul)lic railroad. 

9- rt^ Give two things for which each of these men are 
noted: (2) F?enjamin Franklin, (2) .James Madi- 
son. (21 Thomas Jefferson, (2) Andrew Jackson, 
(2) Theodore Koosevelt, (2) Cushman K. Davis. 

* Name a reference book bearing upon the following 

periods (not a te.xt book): (2) lG8i) to 17G5: (2) 
178:: lTSv<. 

<" (9) Give lliL names of a poem and of two novels in 
conneciiou with United States history. 



S'l'ATK r.OAKD KXAMINAIIONB. 83 

ARITHMETIC, Jst, J90I. 
.-luszi'fr any four 

1. a (5) There are 6(5 pupils in a room, and live times as 

many girls as boys: how many of each? 
b (5) Reduce 8 rds, 3 yds., U ft. to inches. 

2. a (;■)) How many pipes, 1 inch in diameter, will dis- 

charge as much water as one pipe 2 inches in 
diameter? 
b (5) How many more square inches in a square surface 
10 inches each way than in a circle 10 inches in 
diameter? 

3. (10) Sold a horse so that i of the gain equalled the 

cost. What was the gain per cent? 

4. (10) If a boy buy peaches at the rate of 5 for 2 cents, 

and sells them at the rate of 4 for 3 cents, how 
many must he sell to gain $2.10? 

5. a (5) Find the cost of 1,425 shingles at $2.50 per thous- 

and. 

6. (5) Find the cost of 1,725 lbs. of coal at $8.25 per ton. 

7. a (5) How many brick, 2 inches by 4 inches by 8 inches, 

will be needed to build a wall 18 inches thick 
and live feet high around a space 12 feet square, 
making no allowance for mortar. 
b (5) What part of an acre of land is a lot 66 feet wide 
and 132 feet long? 



ARITHMETIC, 2nd, I90I. 

Anszuer any four. 

I. (25) What is the cost of plastering the walls and ceil- 
ing of a room 12 ft. x 18 ft. x 9i ft., at 18 cents 
per square yard? 
i.a, (7) Reduce 8^- to an improper fraction. Give explan- 
tion, not rule. 
b (11) Multiply 7 by %. Give explanation. 
c (7) Reduce 3=^ to a decimal. Give explanation, 

(25) Find diagonal of a sq. containing 2916 sq. ft. 
give answer correct to two decimal places. 

a (12) Reduce the following to per cent: A. »> bS) V> 
^go, 1.1725; 17, and f of A. 

b (13) Find area of a circle 28 ft. in diameter. 

(25) An agent sent his employer $1,385.16 as net pro- 
ceeds of a sale. The rate of hi^ comtiussion wa.s 
3%. What was his commission? 



g4 STATE BOAKD EXAMINATIONS. 

6 (25) Jones holds Smith's note for $600 due in one year< 

interest 8%. Should he discount note at u 
bank at 6% after the expiration of (i niontli?, 
what would the proceeds be? 

7 a (12) Write a promissory note. Time! yr. 5 m.; rate 

7%. Compute interest. 
b (13) What is the difference in time between Green- 
wich and a place 120° 40' 15" west of it? Which 
has the earlier time? 



GEOGRAPHY, 1st, 1901. 
Answer any four. 

a (3) Draw a map of Pennsylvania (scale of map about 
50 miles to the inch.) 

i> (7) Locate Pittsburg, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, and 
that part of the Ohio river which Is in the 
state, together with the two rivers wliich form 
it. Name and locate on your map two bodies of 
water wliicli form natural boundaries to Penn- 
sylvania, and name in order, beginning with 
tlie nortli, tlie states which touch tlie state. 

a (5) Sketch an outline map of the United States and 
locate on your map 6*ie Mississippi and tlie Mis- 
souri rivers. Make your map, east and west- 
the width of your pajper. 

b (5) Locate by names on your map 10 states whose 
boundaries are formed in part by these rivers. 

(( (5) Sketch an outline map of the British Isles. 

b (5) Locate on your map the Thames, London, Glas- 
gow, Dublin and Liverpool. 
(10 Name three of the greatest wheat-exporting 
countries of the world. Name the three nations 
wliich lead in the production of iron. Name 
two of the chief wool-exporting countries of 
tlie world. What country is the main com- 
petitor of the United States in the London 
cotton market? From what country does most 
of our India rubber come? 
(10) What, where and for what noted are five of the 
following? The queen of the Adriatic, Pales- 
tine, Canton, Cayenne, Alhambra, Hongkong, 
the Vatican, Benares. 

a (2) Name the two most important provinces of the 
Dominion of Canada. 

b (2) What is the title of the chief officer in the Can- 
adian government? 



STATK BOARD KX AMIN A'JIONS. 85 



c (2) How is he chosen? 

d (2) What is the large 

where is it situa 

e (2) In what industry does Canada lead the world? 



(2) What is the largest city of the Dominion, and 
where is it situated? 



GEOGRAPHY, 2nd, 1901. 
Anszuer any four. 

1 a (10) Draw a map of the northern boundary of the 

United States, including complete maps of the 
great lakes. 

b (10) Locate on the map Duluth, Detroit, Buffalo, 
Seattle, Lake of the Woods. 

c (5) Draw on your map the 49th parallel of north 
latitude. 

2 a (10) Locate five places in the United States famous 

for natural scenery. 

h (10) Name a place where rubber is extensively pro- 
duced. Turpentine. Salt. Lead. Ivory. (Please 
be careful to give particular locality. Do not 
say United States for salt.) 

c (5) Name live great powers of Europe. 

3 a (10) Draw a map of the west border of Europe from 

North Cape to the Strait of Gibraltar. (Not 
including islands.) 

b (10) Locate on this map Stockholm, Amsterdam, Co- 
penhagen, St. I'etersburg, Lisbon. 

c (5) Show where the parallel of 50 north latitude 
crosses the west border of Europe. 

4 a (10) Locate 5 famous harbors of tlie world, one in each 

of the grand divisions 
b (15) What, where and for what noted are the follow- 
ing: Trinidad, Gibraltar, Luzon, Belfast, Black 
Hills. 

5 a (10) Name the largest five cities of the United States. 

The two most populous states. The longest 
river. The largest state. The smallest state. 
b (15) What is meant by the "high sea"? Which is the 
largest city in British America? About how 
many people are there in the Philippine Islands? 
Where is Pugeo Sound? Name one of the 
United States about the same size as Porto 
Rico. 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 1st, 1901. 

40 Credits. 

Note. — In mentioning a phrase or clause, it is sufficient to write the first 
word or two and the last word with an intervening dash. Construction de- 
notes not only the kind of element, and, if adverbial, what it expresses, but 
also its relationship to some particular part of the sentence. 



SQ STATK BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 



I. Our uncle, innocent of books. 

Was rich in lore of fields and brooks. 
He told how teal and loon he shot, 
And how the eagle's eggs he got: 
Till, warming with the tale he told, 
Forgotten was the outside cold. 
The bitter wind unheeded blew, 
From ripening corn the pigeon flew. 
In fields with bean or clover ^aj- 
The woodchuck, like a hermit gray. 
Peered from the doorway of his cell. 

— "Snowbound." 

2. On this question of principle, while actual suffering 
was yet afar off, they (the American colonists) raised their 
flag against a power to zi'/u'c/t, for purposes of foreign conquest 
and subjugation, Kome in the height of her power is not to be 
compared,— a power which has dotted over the surface of 
the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, 
2uhosc morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping' 
company with the hours, circles the earth with one continu- 
ous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.— 
Daniel Webster. 

I. (10) Fill the accompanying diagram with the prin- 
cipal parts of the various propositions, both principal and 
subordinate, in the second passage: 

SUBJECT. VERB. COMPLEMENT. 



2. (10) Give the use, syntax, of five subordihate clauses 
found in the passages. Choose clauses that illustrate as far 
as possible dillerent uses. 

3- (10) Give the use, syntax, of the following words 
(italicised in the passage): (1) ifmocent, (2) r?V/i, (3) gciy\ (4) 

herynit^ (5) tmfieeded^ (0) zvhich, (7) zuJiosc., and (9) keefitig. 

A' (4) Eewrite with change of voice the first six lines of 
the passage from "Snowbound." 

5. (2) Give the positive plural of uncle, eagle's, her and 
hours. 

6. (4) Give the infinitives of told (active and passive). 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 2d, J90J. 

NOTE.— In mentioning a phrase or clause, it is sufficient to write the first 
*ord or two and the last word with an intervening dash. Construction denotes 
not only the kind of element, and if adverbial, what it expresses, but also its 
relationship to some particular part of the sentence. 

I. And Nature, the old nurse, took 

The child upon her knee. 
Saying . "Here is a story-book 
Thy Father has written for thee."' 



STATE BOABD EXAMINAT10K.S 87 

"Come, wander with ine," she said, 

Into regions yet uutrod; 
And read wCat is yet stiil unread 

In the manuscript of God. 

And he wandered away and away 

With nature, the dear old nurse, 
Who sang to him night and day 

The rhymes of the iiniverse. 

Longfellow to Agassiz. 

2. To catch a grasshopper is no slight foat. At the first step you take, ui 
least forty bolt out and tumble headlong. It is wonderful to see how populous 
the grass is. If you did not want them, they would jump into your very hand. 
But they know by your looks that you are out a-tishing. You see a very 
nice young fellow c/j/M/b/ng- up a steeple stem to get a good lookout and see- 
where you are. The stem you catch, but he has jumped a safe rod . Yonder ii 
another, creeping among some ferns. With broad palm you catch him and al' 
the neighboring herbage too. Stealthily opening your little finger, you see hi' 
leg ; the next finger reveals more of him ; and opening the next, you are just bo- 
ginning to take him out with the other hand, when out he bounds and leaves you 
to renew your pursuit. Twice you snatch handfuls of grass and cautiously opeu 
your palm to find that you have only grass. It is quite vexatious. If any tender 
hearted person ever wondered how a humane man could bring himself to such 
a cruelty as impaling an insect, let him hunt for a grasshopper in a hot day, 
among tall grass; and when at length he secures one the affixing him upon the' 
hook will be done without a scruple, with judicial solemnity, and as a mere 
matter of penal justice. 

— Henry Ward Beecber. 

1. (25) Give the use, syntax, of five subordinate clauses 

found in the second passage, (Choose clauses that 
illustrate as far as possible different uses.) 

2. (25) Fill the accompanying diagram with the principal 

parts of the various propositions, both principal 
and subordinate, in the first passage. 

Subject Verb Complement 



(25) Give the use, syntax, of the following words (itali- 
cized in the passages: (1) ?ii4f/u, (2) forty, (3) pop- 
ulous, (4) climbing^ (5) rod^ (6) creeping, (7) openiyig, 
(8) him, (9) affixiyig, (10) matter. 

(10) Rewrite, with change of voice, tlie last sentence of 
the second passage. 

(15) Gi\e the syntax of six root infinities (known by the 
infinitive sign "to") found in the second passage. 



*i 



STATE BOARD 1!;XA:MINA'II0NS. 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 1902. 

/. I do not remember that I have anywhere mentioned, 
in Sir Roger's character, his custom of saluting everybody 
that passes by him with a good morrow or a good-night. This 
tile old man does out of the overflowings of his humanity, 
uhough at the same time it renders him so popular among his 
country neighbors, that it is tliought to have gone a good way 
in making him once or twice a knight of the shire. 

Joseph Addison— .S"/;- Roger de Coverly. 

II. Pleasantly rose next morn the sun on the village of Grand Pre; 
Pleasantly gleamed in the soft, sweet air the Basin of Minas, 
Where the ships, with their wavering shadows, were riding at anchor. 
Life had long been astir in the village, and clamorous labor 
Knocked with its hundred hands at the golden gates of the morning. 
Now from the country around, from the farms and neighboring hamlets, 
Came in their holiday dresses the blithe Acadian peasants. 
Many a glad good-morrow and jocund laugh from the young folk 
Made the bright air brighter, as up from the numerous meadows. 
Where no path could be seen but the track of wheels on the green- 
sward, 
Group after group appeared and joined or passed on the highway. 

Henry W. Longfellow — Evangeline. 

III. All the remedy that otfered to my thoughts, t\i that 
time, was to get up into a bushy tree, like k fir, which grew 
//rar me, where I resolved to sit all night. I walked about a 
lurlong from the shore to see ivhether 1 could find any fresh 
water to drink, which I did, to my great joy; and having 
drank I went to the tree and, getting up into it, endeavored 
to place myself so that if I should sleep I might not fall. 

Daniel Defoe — Robittson Crusoe. 

1. (20) Give the use (construction, syntax) of the sub- 
ordinate propositions (clauses) in Passage I. 

2. (24) Fill the accompanying diagram with the prlnci- 
!)al parts of the propositions, whether principal parts or sub- 
-Tclinate, found in Passage II. 



SUBJECT 



VERB 



COMPLEMENT 



3. (20) Point out the use of the infinitives in Passage 111. 

4. (2G) Give the u.sc of the following words: (They are 
liore named in order of occurrence, and are italicized \n tlic 
passages. ) 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. i<9 

(1) popular, (2) knight, (3) where, (4) astir, (5) brighter, 
(6) track, (7) tir, (8) near, (9) night, (10) whether, (11) having 
drank, (12) that. 

5. (10) Rewrite the following sentence with a change of 
voice: The silk worms having been destroyed by the heat, 
the cocoons are placed in baskets; women and children now 
unwind the cocoons, — a process which they make easy by 
placing them in boiling water. 



ARITHMETIC, 1902. 
(Anszuer atiyjive.) 

/. (20) Write a ninety-day promissory note for which you 
should get $200 at the bank, discount being 
eight per cent. 

2. (20) A, B and C gained by speculation S22,960, of which 

A's share is twice as much as C"s and live 
times as much as B's. What did each gain? 
Solve by "analysis." 

3. (20) How many dollars will a load of four-foot wood 

cost if the load is 10 feet long and 2i feet high, 
the wood being worth $o per cord? 

4. (20) What is the length of one side of a square field 

containing 15 A. 1 sq. rd.? 

5. (20) What is the interest on $523.56, for 2 years 4 

months and 15 days at 7 % per annum? 

6. (20) What is the value of a stick of timber sixteen feet 

long and eight inches square, at $25 per thou- 
sand, board measure? 



UNITED STATES HISTORY, 1902. 
[Ayiszver a 07- b [not both) of any ten guesiz'ons.) 

What portions of the world were known to 
Europeans in 1490? 

Explain carefully why the hostility of the Iro- 
quois to the French was so important. 

2. (o) (10) What privileges did the patroons have? 
What territory did England gain in 1763? 

3. (a) (10) What were the non-importation agreements? 
Give, with dates, two acts of the British gov- 
ernment which offended the colonists. 

4. (a) (10) Why was Washington appointed to the chief 
command in the War of the Revolution? 

What was the object of Burgoyne's campaign? 



(a) 


(10) 


(^) 


(10) 


(«) 


(10) 


(^) 


(10) 


(«) 


(10) 


(6) 


(10) 


(a) 


(10) 


{0) 


(10) 



J)0 STATK BOARD EXAMINATIONS 

5. (a) (10) Why did the vaKie of paper money keep chang- 

ing during the War of the Revolution? 
How was the Constitution ratified? 

6. («) (10) What are customs duties? 
Why was the Alien and Sedition act unpopular? 
How did the United States acquire Louisiana? 
Why was the Emhargo Act of Jefferson's ad- 
ministration so unpopular in New England? 

What was the Missouri compromise? 
Explain-what is meant by the Monroe Doctrine. 
9. (a) (10) Whoso business is it to decide on the constitu- 

timality of a law passed by Congress? 
How did Jacltson try to ruin the United States 

Bank? 

10. [a] (10) Why was the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 so 
important? 

What elTci't did the Kansas-Nebraskji Act have 
on the ,s '(^rnent of Kansas? 

11. (a) (10) Wliy was J uiinson impeached? 
What is meanti by "reciprocity''? 



{l>) 


(10) 


(a) 


(10) 


(b) 


(10) 


{«) 


(10) 


(^') 


(10) 


(«) 


(10) 


ib) 


(10) 


(a) 


(10) 


{^) 


(10) 


(«) 


(10) 


(b) 


(10) 


(«) 


(10) 


W 


(10) 



GEOGRAPHY, 1902. 



How are poaiis obtained? In what place are 

tliey fouric' most abundantly? 
How are sponges obtained? In what place are 

they found most abundantly? 
Bound tlie Mississippi Valley. 
Name tlvo of the most important lumber states 

of the United States. 
Sketch a map of the Mediterranean Sea. 
Locate on your map the mouths of five rivers 

and naiiie the rivers. 
Bound Chile. 

Why are there no large rivers west of the Andes? 
Mention three kerosene oil producing regions 

of the world. Two diamond producing areas. 
Bound tlie plain of India. 
Write the following five states in order of size: 

Minnesota. Texas, California, Pennsylvania 

Illinois. 
(b) (10) Name the largest live cities of tlie United 

States in order of size. 



;. 


(«) 


(10) 




[b] 


(10) 


2. 


[a) 


(10) 




ib) 


(10) 


3. 


(") 


(10) 




(l>) 


no) 


4. 


{<") 


(10) 




if>) 


(10) 


5. 


{<') 


(h)) 




(b) 


(10) 


6. 


(") 


(10) 



STAIK HOAKL) EXAMINATIONS. 



\n 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 1903. 

/. An old clock that liad stood for fifty years in a farm- 
or's kitchen, without giving its o:aner any cause of complaint, 
early one s/anmcr 7norning, before the farmer was stirrings 
suddenly stopped. 

//. At this the dial plate changed countenance with 
alarm. The hands made a vain effort to continue their 
course. The wheels stood sini with surprise. The weights 

hung speechless. 

III. Soon a faint tick was heard belozu from the pendulum. 
"I confess thai I am the sole cause of this stoppage: and I 
am willing to tell you ivhy I have acted thus. The truth is 
that I am tired of ticking." 

— Jane Taylor. 



IV, Some trfint back from the village street 
Stands the old-fashioned county seat. 
Across its antique portico 
Tall poplar trees their shadows throw; 
And from its station in the hall 
An ancient timepiece says to all — 
''Forever — never ! 
T^e.ver— forever !" 

— Longfellow. 

V. "If a man empties his purse Into his head, no man can 
take it away from him. Employ thy time well, if thou 
meanest to gain leisure; and, since thbu art not sure of a 
minute, throw not away an Jtour.''^ 

— Franklin. 

/• (18) Give the use (construction, syntax) of the sub- 
ordinate propositions (clauses) in passages III. and Y. 

2. (28) Fill the accompanying diagram with the princi- 
pal parts of the propositions, whether principal or subordi- 
nate, found in passages I. and I^ . 



SUBJECT 



VERB 



COMPLEMENT 



3. (9) Point out the use of the root infinitives in the 
passages. (Known by the infinitive sign "to.") 



92 STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 

4. Give the use of the following words: (They are here 
named in order of occurrence, and are italicized in the pass- 
ages.) 



1 


Owner. 


7 


That. 


2 


Summer. 


8 


Why. 


3 


Morning, 


9 


Tired. 


4 


Still. 


10 


Somewhat. 


5 


Speechless. 


11 


Forever. 


6 


Below. 


12 


Hour. 



5. (12) Point out the antecedent of each personal pro- 
noun in passages I., II., IV. and Y. 

S. (9) Rewrite with a change of voice: We hold these 
truths to be self evident:— That all men are created equal; 
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalien- 
able rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit 
of happiness. 



ARITHMETIC, 1903. 

[Anszver any fii>e.) 

1. i\^) Sold two carriages at $2-10 apiece. On one I made 

20% of the cost, and on the other I lost 20% of 
the cost. Did I make or lose on the sale of the 
carriages, and how much? 

2. (10) A man sells a pile of cordwood, ten feet long, six 

feet high, and four feet wide, at six dollars per 
cord. How many shingles can he buy with the 
money he receives for the wood, if he pay $5.00 
per M for the shingles'? 

3. (10) Teas costing $0.70 and 10.80 are mixed in equal 

quantities and sold at $0.85; what is the gain per 
cent? 

4. (10) A can do a piece of work in 5 days, B can do it in 6 

days; how long will it take them to do it working 
together? 

5. (10) How much will it cost to carpet a room 15 feet wide 

and 16 feet long, witli carpeting three-fourths of 
a yard wide, the carpet to cost $0.75 per yard? 
Which way should the strips run to lessen the 
expense of carpeting? 

6. (10) If a man sell two-thirds of his farm for what three- 

fourtiis of it cost does he make or lose by the 
transaction, and how much per cent? 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 93 

U. S. HISTORY, J903. 

[Anszver any Jive,) 

1. (10) Name five explorers in America before tlie settle- 

ment of St Augustine and give tlie region ex- 
plored by each, the date of exploration, and the 
nationality of each explorer. 

2. (10) What nations owned the continent of North Amer- 

ica after the treaty closing the French and Indian 
war in 1763 and wliat part was owned by each. 

3. (10) Give what you consider to be two of the principal 

causes of the Revolutionary War, and state iivhy 
you consider them the principal causes. 

4. (10) Discuss the Louisiana Purchase under the following 

heads: Date; by whom; from whom; price paid; 
amount of territory purchased. 

5. (10) Discuss the Kansas-Nebraska bill under the follow- 

ing heads: Proposed by whom; main provisions; 
effect on the Missouri compromise; result of the 
vote provided for by the Kansas-Nebraska bill 
for the organization of Kansas. 
S. (10) What five Vice-Presidents have become Presidents 
through the death of Presidents? What new 
position in the cabinet has been created within 
the last year? What route has been settled upon 
for the canal across the isthmus of Panama? 
Who is president of Cuba? Who is governor of 
the Philippines? If Roosevelt were to die who 
would become President? 



GEOGRAPHY, 1903. 

(Anszc'er any Jive.) 

1. (10) Sketch the northern boundary of the United States 

and include in your map the fiftieth parallel of 
latitude and an outline of the great lakes. Name 
the lakes and also the states that border on the 
north. 

2. (10) Locate the following cities: Seattle, Amsterdam, 

Constantinople, Moscow, Calcutta. 

3. (10) Where in the United States are the following most 

abundantly produced: Beet sugar, cane sugar, 
marble, turpentine, mercury. 

4. (10) Draw a map of England, Scotland and Wales and 

locate on your map the following: The Irish Sea, 
the Thames, Liverpool, Isle of Wight and Glasgow. 

5. (10) Locate the following mountains: Himalaya, Atlas, 

Apennines, Ilinku Kosh, Carpathian. 

6. (10) On what waters would a ship sail in going from Lon- 

don to St. Peter.sburg; from London to Athens? 



94 STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 

ARITHMETIC, J904. 

Fourth question 10 credits, other qviestions 15 credits. 
/, If from 18% yards of cloth 4 11-lG yards are cut, 
what fraction of the piece is left? 

2. When eggs are sold at 15c per dozen a profit of i^ 
of the cost is made. What was tiie cost per dozen? 

3. (a) Multiply fovu- hundredths by seven hundred- 
thousandths. 

(b) Divide one and ninetj'-two hundredths \>\ six- 
teen ten-thousandths. 

4. Paid $33% for 3,750 pounds of hay. What was the 
price per ton? 

5. A bin 6 feet long. 4 feet wide holds 75 bushels. How 
deep is the bin if 1 cubic foot equals 4-5 bushel? 

6. A merchant marked a pair of shoes at an advance 
of 25 per cent. If he discovmts the price 10 per cent to 
a customer, what per cent does he still make? 

7. Find the rate at which $900 for 3 years, 8 months 
will yield $198 interest. 



UNITED STATES HISTORY, 1904. 
/. Name one Spaniard, one French, and one English 
' explorer, and briefly describe the work of each. 

2. Distinguish between charter, i)roprietary and royal 
colonies and mention one example of each. 

3. Discuss the Stamp Act. 

4. Discuss the purpose, importance and results of Bur- 
goyne's campaign. 

5. Mention, with dates, the acquisitions of territory 
made by the United States since 1783? 

6. What were the reasons for calling a convention "to 
revise the Articles of Confederation"? 

7. What were the "Alien and Sedition Acts"? 

8. What was the effect of the Dred Scott decision? 

9. What M'ere the Alabama claims and how were they 
settled? 

10. Name two great American inventors and discuss the 
importance of their inventions. 



GEOGRAPHY, 1904. 

/. (5) Name five characteristic animals of South America; 
five of Africa. 

2. (5) What section of the U. S. is most densely popu- 
lated? What country of Europe? Asia? Give 
approximately the area and population of Minne- 
sota. 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS 9u 

3. (2) What is the prevailing form of government in 
South America? In Asia? Name two republics 
in Europe. 

4. (a) (5) Name five leading exports of U. S. 

(b) (10) Name two regions where each of the follow- 
ing is pi-oduced extensively: Wheat, wool, tin, 
petroleum ,salt. 

5. (10) Bound Germany or Brazil. 

6. i-i) State approximately the distance, by land, from 

St. Petersburg to Port Arthur. What is the prin- 
cipal means of communication between these two 
places ? 

7. (8) Name in order the divisions of water through which 

the Russian Black Sea fleet must sail in going 
from Sebastopol to Vladivostok. 

8. (10) Map. 

(5) Location. Draw an outline map of North Amer- 
ica, showing five principal political divisions and 
five great drainage basins. . 

9. (10) Railroads. 

(10) Cities. Locate on the above map two railroads 
connecting the central section of the United 
States with Pacific ports; also locate Boston, San 
Francisco, Montreal, Niagara Falls, Washington, 
St. Louis, Yosemite Valley, New Orleans, Yellow- 
stone Park, and Buffalo. 
10. (10) Map. 

(5) Location. Draw an outline map of Europe and lo- 
cate; Danube, London, Berlin, Paris, Constantinople. 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 1904. 

1. There in Iceland, o'er their books 

Pored the people day and night, 
But he did not like their looks, 
Nor the songs they used to write. 
.-//'/ this rhyme 
Is waste of time!" 
Grumbled Thangbrand, Olaf's /'r/^'s/.— Longfellow 

2. I appeal to the experience of any man who is in the 
habit of exercising his mind vigorously and well, whether 
here is not a satisfaction in it zuhich tells him he has, 
Tseen acting up to one of the great objects of his exist- 
ence? — Smith. 

3. As we expected ovn* landlord the next day, my wife 
went to make the venison pasty. Moses sat reading 
while I taught the little ones; my daughters seemed 
equally busy with the rest; and I observed them for at 



96 STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 

good while cookiyig something over the fire; but little 
Dick informed me in a whisper, that they were making 
a wash for the face. — Goldsmith. 
/. (24) Fill the accompanying diagram with the prin- 

cipal parts of the independent propositions (principal 
clauses) found in paragraphs I and 111. 

SUBJECT. VERB. COMPLEMENT. 



2. (24) Give the construction of the subordinate propo- 
sitions (clauses) in the given selections. 

3. (20) Give the construction of the following words 
as italicized in the given passages: 

(1) o'er, (2) day, (3) all, (4) Priest, (5) exercising, 
(6) which, (7) him, (8) venison, (9) busy, (10) cooking. 

4. (12) Rewrite the following passage with change of 
~"*voice: 

He assiued me that this invention had employed all 
Ms thoughts from his youth; that he had emptied the 
whole vocabulary into his frame, and made the strictest 
computation of the general proportion there is in books, 
between the numbers of participles, nouns, and verbs, and 
other parts of speech. 

5. (20) (a) Write a sentence containing: 

1st. An infinitive used as a noun. 

2nd. An infinitive used as an adverb mod- 
ifying an adjective. 

3rd. An infinitive used as an adjective. 

4th. A noun clause used as a predicate 
nominative, 
(b) Write a complex declarative sentence con- 
taining a verb in the past perfect tense. 



ARITHMETIC, 1905. 

(Answer any five.) 

7. (20) Find the interest on $2,500 from June 13, 1903, to 

February 4, 1905, at 5 per cent. 
2. (20) How many bolts each 2-3 in. long can be cut from 
ah iron rod 61^4 in. long, and what is the length 
of the piece remaining? 
2. a (10) Multiply .16 2-3 by .000 5-6, and give the result 
to the sixth decimal place. (Leave all of your 
work.) 
b (10) Divide .072 by .0004i/o. (Leave all of your 
work.) 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 97 

4. (20) A square field contains 10 acres; if it is divided 

into four square fields of equal size, find the num- 
ber" of rods of fence required to enclose them. 

5. (20) A merchant marks dress goods at 60c a yard, but 

throws ofl^ 10 per cent and still makes 20 per 
cent profit. Find what the goods cost the merch- 
ant. 

6. (20) What per. cent must be added to the cost price in 

order to give a discount of 2.5 per cent and still 
make a profit of 20 per cent.? 



UNITED STATES HISTORY, 1905. 

(Answer any five.) 

/. (10) Write the names of the thirteen original colonies 
in the order of their settlement^ and name the 
place where each was first settled. 

2. (10) Give an outline for an account of the French and 

Indian war. j 

3. (10) Give three principal causes of the Revolutionary 

war. What were the boundaries of the United 
States at the close of the war? 

4. (10) Name any five presidents in order and give one 

important event in the administration of each. 

5. (10) What was a "carpet bagger?" What was a "free 

soiler?" What was the Monitor? What is meant 

by the "Reconstruction Period?" What was an 
"abolitionist?" 

6. (10) What was the cause of the war with Spain, in 

1898? Wnat territory did the United States gain 
by the treaty which closed this war? 



GEOGRAPHY, 1905. 

(Answer any five.) 

1. (10) Name the zones and state the width of each zone 

in degrees. 

2. (10) Draw a map of the northern boundary of the 

United States, including an outline of the great 
lakes. Name the principal river boundaries. 
Make your map as wide as the paper you are 
using. 

3. (10) Name and describe three of the principal rivers of 

South America. 

4. (10) What are the principal three kinds of sugar in 

common use, and where is a region in which each 
is produced abundantly? 



98 STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 

5. (10) Sketch the coast line of Europe from the point 

on the Baltic Sea where Russia and Germany 
meet, westward and southward to the strait of 
Gibraltar, and locate on your map the mouths of 
two important rivers. Make your map about 
twelve inches in a direct line from the point 
where you begin to that where you leave off. 

6. (10) Name five nations which have colonies, and state 

where one colonial possession of each nation is 
located. 



ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 1905. 

Note. — In mentioning a phrase or clause, it is sulfi- 
cient to write the first word or two and the last word, 
with an intervening dash. Construction denotes not only 
the kind of element, and, if adverbial, what it expresses, 
but also its relationship to some particular part of the 
sentence. 

I. Meriily szuingring on brier and weed, 

A'ear to the nest of his little dame, 
Over the mountain-side or mead, 

Robert of Lincoln is telling his name. 

Robert of Lincoln's Quaker wife. 

Pretty and quiet, with plain brown wings, 

Passing at iiome a patient life. 

Broods in the grass zuJiile her husband sings. 

— Bryant. 

.II The door of Scrooge's counting-house was open, that 

he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who, in a dismal 
mttle cell beyond, was copying letters. Scrooge had a 
very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much 
smaller that it looked like one coal. But he couldn't re- 
plenish if, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; 
and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the 
master predicted that it would be necessary for them to 
fart. Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, 
and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, 
not heiyig a ynan of strong imagination, he failed. — Dickens. 

III. Locksley returned almost instantly with a willow 
wand about six feet in length, perieetly straight, and 
rather thicker than a man's thumb. He began to peel 
this with great composure, observing at the same time 
that to ask a good woodsman to shoot at a target so 
broad as had hitherto been used was to put shame upon 
his skill.— Sir Walter Scott. 



STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS. 99 

/. ( 10) Fill the accompanying diagram with the principal 
parts of the independent propositions found in 
passages, I. and III. 

SUBJECT VERB COMPLEMENT 



2. (1(3) Give the construction of four subordinate propo- 

sitions (clauses) in passage 11. 

3. (8) Give the construction of the infinitive phrases found 

in passage III. 

4. (17) Give the construction of the following words, as 

underlined in the passages: 

Swinging, near, quiet, while, so, surely, to part, 
which, being, man, feet, thicker, tnunib, as. 

5. (6) Give a synopsis in the third person plural, indica- 

tive mood, of the verb sings. 

6. (8) Rewrite the first sentence of II, replacing the pro- 

nouns by nouns. 

7. (6) Rewrite the third sentence of II with a change of 

voice throughout. 

8. (4) Rewrite the last sentence of III with a change of 

number throughout. 



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